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Frontispiece for “captured” read “completed.” 

Page 17, after Sitton, H. P., add (Treas.) 

Page 166, seventh line, for “March 8, 1839,” read “March 8, 1840.” 
Page 206, for “Cary, J.” read “Cary, J. W.” 

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SOUTH CAROLINA 


PUBLISHED BY 


The Old Stone Church and Cemetery Association 
with the Cooperation of the Andrew Pickens 
and Cateechee Chapters, D. A. R. 


COLLECTED AND EDITED BY 


RICHARD NEWMAN BRACKETT, Pu. D. 
Associate Professor of Chemistry 
Clemson College, S. C. 


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CONTENTS 
PAGE. 
PepERODU CHIN aac ees Hi Since So bt RU, oa St 1 
The Old Stone Church and Cemetery Association. 1 
UTS NURSE o17 RS SR Re PS Poe Sey, SA 13 
SU EWS) pee SPORES rs wats Ud a 6 wre ie ets 14 
Memes weet Cet. on dens = 5 oe cee 15 
Officers and Members of the Andrew Pickens Chap- 
EEE Se) S AUB Taney ete rec he ey See a 5 TY eke So 19 
Officers and Members of the Cateechee Chapter, 
BP ee Rat ap SI LINAS Hale) 3) ho AI Nal eed & Sees oso 19 
Dr. Wm. Backly Cherry, by Mrs. Fannie Cherry 
PO RVIS TG alain igh ncs tray a Ota Nee ws te Vane aig Se whee 20 
Dr. Oliver M. Doyle, by a Life-long Friend...... 21 
Old Stone Church Property, by Major A. T. Broyles, late 
MO NMGCTSOM ess! Roe Cafes ¢ Dea see tte kl OR rae 25 
Survey of Old Stone Church Property, by J. P. Smith, 
2s EUSA ANS ak Oe ae 2h A RL at PSS A te ela ay 28 
John Miller, The Printer, by Major A. T. Broyles, late of 
PNTAGETSONSE Sol Gven. hs Scere re SETS oe ora aes Sinker 30 
John Miller and His Descendants, by Mrs. Julia Miller 
JEREZ. ges gh Mae aN aA Te ae gg ec enrae o 37 
Transcript-Extract of the Earliest Session Book of Hope- 
WicM AG Of CO AMO ort e Pas Se eos wale ed UREE 40 


Hopewell Congregation and Old Stone Church, from 
Howe's History of the Presbyterian Church in South 


MEETS OS ec). Wah Sins atte taniene es eteehc ian, oe 7 
pine Old Stone Mectiug House”... ..... 0.2... 296 4.. 101 
IMT SEATING ANTEC EE re et an ee 2 aS vate ain eu ca aie HOWE 105 
The Old Stone Church, by W. A. Dickson.............. 107 
Old Stone Church and Cemetery, Address by D. E. Frier- 

SOT, ID DS RF ie..gg te a i eed OR SO) 110 
The Old Stone Church, Editorial, Keowee Courier, Wal- 

RIL DMAND CAC peeemees aiae R Nees 2 oy Shortie Mare aiaveuciee: bys tetas 124 
Memorial Address, May 4, 1901, by Wm. S. Morrison, 

Professor of History, Clemson College, S.C........ 127 


Andrew Pickens, from Cowpens Centennial, 1781-1881, 
by permission of Capt. W. A. Courtenay, Newry, S. C. 137 
Robert Anderson, by Professor J. J. Halsey, Lake Forest, 


te CONTENTS. 


PAGE. 
The Anderson Family, by Mrs. O. L. Burkhead, Mount 
Meridian, Augusta Co., Va...........-.«-5 5 157 
The Anderson Family, from W. F. Boogher’s Gleanings of 
Virginia History 2... 022.2260. 5-22 s ee 159 
The Reese Family’ s....0...5......7..--2 er 161 
Thomas Reese, D. D., from Ramsey’s History of 
South Carolina, from Its Earliest Settlement in 


1670, to'the Year 1808, V ol..2. +. <2. ee 161 
James McElhenny, D. D., by Mrs. P. H. Mell, Clemson 
College, S$. Cx iu ceed ea opt oie = > or 165 
Thomas Livingston McBryde, D. D., by John T. McBryde, 
D._D.,. Soddy, Tenn. ..:.:........-. +. 166 
John Baily Adger, D. D., by Miss Susan D. Adger, Pen- 
dieton, S.C... . 0. 2... ee ee chen ae © or 71 


Lemant and Walker Families, from Information Furnished 

by Mrs. Annie Lee Hudson Hill, Washington, Ga... 174 
Joseph Whitner, by Major Jno. C. Whitner, Atlanta, Ga.. 178 
Turner Bynum, by Mrs. Sallie Chase Patillo, Atlanta, Ga.. 180 
Old Pendleton, from Keowee Courier, Walhalla, S. C., 

May 7, 1891 0.5. be .6 ud aioe dele See eer 182 
Old Pendleton, Address by Wm. S. Morrison, Professor 

of History, Clemson College, S. C., Before the Pen- 


dleton Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy...... 186 
List of the Dead in the Old Stone Church Cemetery..... 206 
Confederate Dead .. 2.5.2. «<>< = 01ers 211 
Revolutionary Soldiers .....:....5:.-:-.————— 212 


Indian Creek War, 1815-1816... .. 2223 212 


FOREWORD 


Two years have elapsed since the writer began, at the re- 
quest of ‘““The Old Stone Church and Cemetery Association,” 
collecting the material here presented. Every effort has been 
made by correspondence and through the secular and reli- 
gious press to obtain original documents, sketches and infor- 
mation of any and all kinds bearing upon the history of the 
Old Stone Church, and of the illustrious sons and daughters 
of South Carolina who found their last resting place in the 
cemetery attached to the old church. 

While fully realizing the incomplete and fragmentary 
nature of the material contained herein, the compiler feels 
that, in justice to those who have aided him in so many ways, 
as well as to the mere subscribers to this book, longer delay 
in publication would be unwarranted. 

It is a matter of profound regret that no original records 
of the Old Stone Church could be found. The “Session 
Book,” which was doubtless kept, must have been destroyed. 
An almost complete transcript is given of the first “Session 
Book” of the Hopewell congregation after its place of wor- 
ship was transferred from Old Stone Church to a frame 
building in Pendleton village. This book contains the oldest 
records of the Hopewell congregation now extant, and gives 
us much interesting information about the earlier members 
of that congregation, who had worshipped at Old Stone 
Church, as well as of their descendants. 

While no deed to the land on which the church and ceme- 
tery are located could be found, Major A. T. Broyles, of 
Anderson, S. C., by a careful and painstaking search through 
the records in the Court House at Anderson, has established 
beyond any doubt the fact that John Miller, the Printer, 
donated the land. This paper of Major Broyles on the dona- 
tion of the land is one of the most interesting and important 
in the collection, and is especially valuable as a piece of 


II. FOREWORD. 


research work by one eminently qualified as a lawyer to in- 
vestigate and sift the evidence. 

The sketch of Rev. John Bailey Adger, D. D., written by 
his daughter for this book at the request of the writer, has 
been introduced because of Dr. Adger’s great interest in the 
Old Stone Church, where he frequently held services during 
his long pastorate at Pendleton. 

It would have been quite impossible for the writer, amidst 
the numerous duties incident to the life of a busy teacher, to 
have collected and prepared unaided even this meager ac- 
count of Old Stone Church. It is, therefore, with pleasure 
that he acknowledges his indebtedness for much valuable 
assistance from the members of “The Old Stone Church 
and Cemetery Association,” and from many others. Special 
mention should be made of Mrs. P. H. Mell for her valuable 
help both in work and suggestion; of Capt. W. A. Courte- 
nay, of Newry, S. C., for permission to use the sketch of 
Andrew Pickens, and for the loan of the two cuts accompany- 
ing this sketch; of Miss Minnie Wannamaker, Stenographer 
to the President of Clemson College, S. C., and of Prof. J. V. 
Lewis, now of Rutgers College, N. J., both of whom gave 
freely of their time in helping to prepare the manuscript; of 
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Whitten, of Anderson County, who 
reside within a stone’s throw of the Old Stone Church Ceme- 
tery, and without whose invaluable help, no list of the dead in 
that cemetery, in any measure approaching completeness, 
could possibly have been prepared, as many of the graves are 
unmarked; of Mr. W. W. Klugh, of Clemson College, who 
kindly made the drawing of the plat of the church lot. Major 
A. T. Broyles, I had hoped thus publicly to thank for his in- 
valuable contribution, but he passed over the river only a few 
months since. Finally, to my wife, but for whose help, ad- 
vice and encouragement this work would never have reached 
even this unsatisfactory shape, I must accord grateful ac- 
knowledgment. R. N. Bracket rT, Phys 

Assoc. Prof. Chemistry. 

Clemson College, S. C., June 22, 1905. 


INTRODUCTION 


The Hopewell congregation was composed of some of 
South Carolina’s most illustrious sons and daughters, many 
of whom, with other brave and noble citizens, found their last 
earthly resting place in the old cemetery. The material con- 
tained in this book has been collected for the two-fold pur- 
pose of preserving the history of the Old Stone Church and 
of stimulating the interest of South Carolinians, and possibly 
others, in the restoration and preservation of the church 
building, and in the improvement and perpetual care of the 
cemetery and grounds. It is hoped that the interest thus 
aroused will prompt many to contribute in a substantial way 
in aiding “The Old Stone Church and Cemetery Association” 
and the Andrew Pickens and the Cateechee Chapters of the 
Daughters of the American Revolution in the prosecution of 
this worthy work. 

In view of the fact that the material for this book has been 
collected under the auspices of “The Old Stone Church and 
Cemetery Association,” it would seem only mete and proper 
that some account be given of its origin, aims and work. 


THE Otp Stone CHURCH AND CEMETERY ASSOCIATION. 


“Tt was in the summer of 1893 when Dr. O. M. Doyle, of 
Seneca, S. C., and Capt. J. Miles Pickens, of Pendleton, S. 
C., met at Calhoun, S. C. They were deploring the condi- 
tion of the Old Stone Church and the cemetery there, where 
so many honored dead are buried. They decided to call a 
meeting of those persons interested in the old church and 
cemetery to take place in the early fall at the old church. Dr. 
Doyle had the notice published in the Oconee and Pickens 
County papers and Capt. Pickens in the papers at Anderson. 
S.C.” This quotation from a letter to the writer by Capt. 


2 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


J. Miles Pickens gives the first step in the organization of 
this Association. What follows has been taken from the 
minutes of the Association. 

As a result of the call above referred to, a small number 
met at the Old Stone Church, August —, 1893. Dr. W. B. 
Cherry was elected Chairman and Rev. John T. McBryde, 
D. D., Secretary. There were present: Dr. O. M. Doyle, 
Capt. J. Miles Pickens, Messrs. J. E. Lebby, A. C. Stephens, 
John E. Lewis, Mesdames B. F. Sloan, J. W. Livingston, T. 
L. McBryde and Misses Eliza Pickens and Harriet Maxwell. 
“Short speeches were made by several urging the importance 
of forming some association for the preservation of the Old 
Stone Church, one of the landmarks in the history of this 
part of the State, and for keeping in order this city of the 
dead, where are buried some of the most honored and distin- 
guished of South Carolina’s many noble dead.” After a 
very encouraging meeting there was appointed, with Rev. 
Dr. McBryde as Chairman, a Committee consisting of Dr. O. 
M. Doyle, Capt. J. Miles Pickens and Mrs. J. W. Livingston, 
to further consider the work and when ready report at a 
meeting to be called by Chairman Cherry at Pendleton, S. C. 

At the call of the Chairman (Dr. Cherry), a meeting of 
those interested in the preservation of the Old Stone Church 
and Cemetery was held in the historic Farmer’s Hall at Pen- 
dleton, S. C., October 23, 1893. There were present: Rev. 
Dr. McBryde, who acted as Chairman, Dr. O. M. Doyle, 
Major S. P. Dendy, Mrs. J. W. Livingston, Miss Harriet 
Maxwell, Miss Eliza Pickens, Capt. J. Miles Pickens, Col. C. 
Randall and Messrs. A. C. Stephens and Geo. E. Taylor. 
Remarks were made as to the object of the meeting by the 
Chairman, as well as by Dr. Doyle, Major Dendy and Col. 
Randall. On motion of Mr. Doyle, Major Dendy was in- 
vited and consented to act with the Committee appointed at 
the previous meeting at the Old Stone Church. It was re- 
solved, that the organization be called “The Old Stone 
Church and Cemetery Improvement Association.” A num- 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 3 


ber of resolutions were adopted, several of which were em- 
bodied in the Constitution given below: 

“Resolved (by Dr. Doyle), That a sub-committee of three, 
including the Chairman, be appointed from the Committee 
of ten to formulate a Constitution and By-Laws, to report 
when the work is finished, and that Major Dendy be re- 
quested to act with them. Adopted.” This Committee con- 
sisted of Rev. Dr. McBryde, Chairman, Dr. O. M. Doyle and 
Major B. F. Sloan, Major S. P. Dendy acting with them. 

“Resolved (by Mr. Geo. E.. Taylor), That the Executive 
Committee be appointed from the three Counties interested, 
viz: Anderson, Oconee and Pickens. Adopted.” Mr. Geo. 
FE. Taylor acted as Secretary of this meeting, which ad- 
journed to meet at the call of the Chairman. 

“The Old Stone Church and Cemetery Improvement As- 
sociation” met at the call of the Chairman at Pendleton, S. 
C., December 4, 1893, probably in the Farmer’s Hall, though 
the minutes do not so state. The meeting was opened with 
prayer. The following persons were present: Drs. O. M. 
Doyle and T. J. Pickens, Messrs. J. EK. Lebby, J. D. McEI- 
roy, B. F. Gantt, Samuel McCrary, and James Harrison, 
Mesdames B. F. Sloan, J. W. Livingston and M. L. Warren. 
In behalf of the Committee on Constitution and By-Laws, 
Dr. Doyle submitted a Constitution and By-Laws, which 
were adopted. An election of officers resulted as follows: 
President, Dr. W. B. Cherry; 1st Vice-President, Dr. O. M. 
Doyle; 2d Vice-President, Capt. J. Miles Pickens ; Secretary- 
Treasurer, Rev. J. T. McBryde, D. D. Several resolutions 
were adopted and the members paying dues were recorded. 
Rev. Dr. McBryde acted as Secretary of the meeting. 

In a letter dated at Seneca, S. C., January 3, 1894, Presi- 
dent Cherry requested Secretary McBryde to notify the fol- 
lowing gentlemen of their appointment on the Executive 
Committee: B. F. Sloan, Seneca, $. C.; Aaron Boggs, Oco- 
nee County, S. C.; H. P. Sitton, Pendleton, S. C.; J.D. 


t THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


McElroy, Anderson County, S. C.; Dr. J. H. Maxwell, 
Greenville, S. C. 

The first annual meeting of ‘“The Old Stone Church and 
Cemetery Association” (the name adopted in the Constitu- 
tion), was held at the Old Stone Church, October 11, 1894, 
at the call of the President. The meeting was opened with 
prayer by Rev. Dr. D. E. Frierson, of Anderson, $. C. Presi- 
dent Cherry delivered an address urging the necessity of 
continuing the Association and carrying out its aims. Rev. 
Dr. Frierson delivered an able address, after which an elec- 
tion of officers being in order, all the old officers were re- 
elected. The Executive Committee made a report, which 
was received as information. Among the resolutions adopted 
were the following: ‘That the Executive Committee be in- 
structed to study the grounds and suggest a plan for im- 
provement and an estimate of the cost of the same to the 
Association.” ‘That, in the absence of Rev. Dr. McBryde, 
Secretary-Treasurer, Major B. F. Sloan be authorized to act 
for him, and for that purpose he is authorized to get posses- 
sion of the records of the Association.” ‘That the thanks of 
the Association be tendered Rey. Dr. Frierson for his able 
and scholarly address,* and that a copy be requested for pub- 
lication.” The old Executive Committee was reappointed 
for next year. 

There is no record in the minute book of an annual meet- 
ing in 1895. 

The annual meeting for 1896 was held at the Old Stone 
Church, October 1. Rev. B. P. Reid, of Pendleton, S. C., 
opened the meeting with prayer and a sermon. Mr. Reid 
urged upon the Association the desirability of having a 
narrative of the Stone Church read or delivered each year. 
“Tt was resolved that the officers of the Association be re- 
quired to engage some one each year, at least one month 
before the annual meeting, to deliver an address before the 
Association.” 


*This address is given in full in this book, see page 110. 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 5 


An election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as fol- 
lows: President, Dr. O. M. Doyle; 1st Vice-President, Maj. 
J. J. Lewis; 2d Vice-President, Capt. J. Miles Pickens; Sec- 
retary and Treasurer, Major B. F. Sloan. 

“Resolved, That the Executive Committee be instructed to 
consider the propriety of publishing a pamphlet for distribu- 
tion, including a history of the Association, and Rev. Dr. 
Frierson’s address in 1894, and that the President of the 
Association be made a member of the Committee for this 
purpose.” 

The report of the Executive Committee at this meeting 
contains the first reference to the question of building a fence 
around the cemetery. Attached to the records of this meet- 
ing is a circular letter, dated Seneca, S. C., October 3, 1896, 
written by President Doyle to eleven ladies, requesting them 
to aid in raising money to build a fence around the cemetery. 
President Doyle appointed the following Executive Com- 
mittee for the year: Rev. B. P. Reid, Chairman, Messrs. 
Aaron Boggs, H. P. Sitton, Bonneau Harris and Capt. J. 
Miles Pickens. 

The annual meeting for 1897 was called for August 21, at 
the Old Stone Church. The meeting was opened with 
prayer by Rev. B. P. Reid. Rev. W. E. Boggs, D. D., was 
present by invitation to address the Association, but owing 
to the small attendance caused by the inclemency of the 
weather, the address was postponed to an adjourned meeting, 
October 2. 

The adjourned meeting, 1897, was held at Old Stone 
Church, October 2, and was opened with prayer by Rev. B. 
P. Reid. Rev. W. E. Boggs, D. D., delivered an able and 
learned address. ‘Rev. B. P. Reid made a short address in 
re the burial of Mrs. Matilda J. Miller, widow of John F. 
Miller, who was the son of Crosby Miller, who, with his 
brother, John Miller, gave the land on which the church was 
built. Rev. Mr. Reid also read a narrative of the early his- 
tory of the Old Stone Church and of the people buried in the 


6 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


cemetery.” The old officers of the Association were re- 
elected for the ensuing year. ‘On motion, the first Friday 
in October was fixed as the day for the annual meeting each 
year in the future.”’ 

On motion of Rev. B. P. Reid, the President appointed a 
Committee of three, with the President as Chairman, to be- 
gin the erection of a fence of stone, or of stone and iron, 
around the cemetery. 

The annual meeting of the Association for 1898 was held 
at the Old Stone Church, October 7. The meeting was 
called to order by Vice-President J. J. Lewis, and opened 
with prayer by Rev. B. P. Reid. Mr. Reid presented a plan 
for a fence to be built around the cemetery, with an estimate 
of the cost, and moved its adoption. After some discussion, 
Major B. F. Sloan moved as a substitute, which was adopted, 
that the President appoint a Committee of three or more to 
raise a subscription, adopt a plan of a fence and proceed to 
the erection of the same. Hon. J. E. Boggs, of Pickens, 
who had been invited to deliver the annual address, was pre- 
vented from being present. Rev. B. P. Reid read a short 
account of the foundation of the Old Stone Church and its 
early history. Major B. F. Sloan also read a few notes of 
the early history of the church, copied from the session book 
of the Hopewell Pendleton Presbyterian Church. 

On motion, a Committee of three, consisting of Rev. B. P. 
Reid, Major B. F. Sloan and Capt. J. Miles Pickens, was ap- 
pointed to draft suitable resolutions on the death of Dr. O. 
M. Doyle, the former President of the Association. The 
Committee appointed to build the fence consisted of Rev. B. 
P. Reid, Messrs. J. C. Stribling and O. R. Doyle. Major J. 
J. Lewis was elected President and the other officers re- 
elected for the ensuing year. 

A call meeting of the Association was held at Old Stone 
Church, August 18, 1899, to consider the building of a fence 
around the cemetery. The Treasurer reported $220 on hand 
from dues of the members and subscriptions. An agreement 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH a 


was made to try and raise at least $100 additional by the time 
for the annual meeting. 

The regular annual meeting of the Association for 1899 
was held at Old Stone Church, October 6, and was opened 
with prayer by Rev. B. P. Reid. There seems to have been 
no annual address. The fence question was discussed and 
plans laid to raise additional contributions. Officers for the 
ensuing year were elected as follows: President, Major J. J. 
Lewis; Vice-President, Mr. J. C. Stribling; Secretary and 
Treasurer, Mr. H. P. Sitton. The Executive Committee 
was reappointed. 

There is no record in the minute book of a meeting in 
1900. 

The annual meeting of the Association for 1901 was held 
at Old Stone Church, October 4, with President J. J. Lewis 
in the chair. Dr. R. N. Brackett presented a set of resolu- 
tions, looking to the establishment of an endowment fund for 
the perpetual care of Old Stone Church and Cemetery. These 
resolutions were adopted, printed in the form given below 
and sent to all persons likely to be interested in the move- 
ment: 


“An Appeal for an Endowment Fund for the Perpetual Care 
of the Old Stone Church Cemetery. 


Resolutions adopted by the Old Stone Church Association 
—annual meeting, October 4, 1901. In consideration of the 
interest which we as patriotic citizens of South Carolina and 
as members of this Association have in the care and preser- 
vation of the historic memorials to the illustrious dead, who 
found their last resting place in the Old Stone Church Ceme- 
tery; and in view of our own interest in the proper care of 
these grounds, by reason of those dear to us through ties of 
blood or friendship whose remains repose here: 

Be it resolved, first. That it is the sense of this Association 
that an endowment fund shall be raised to be known as THE 
Op Stone CHurcH PERPETUAL ENDOWMENT Funp, and 


8 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


that every effort be made to raise at least one thousand dol- 
lars for this purpose. 

Be it resolved, second, That a Committee of six be ap- 
pointed to draw up an appeal for this purpose, that they be 
authorized to have said appeal printed and distributed to all 
members of this Association; and, in view of the historic 
interest of this Cemetery, in order to afford an opportunity to 
the patriotic citizens of South Carolina of contributing to this 
cause, to send copies of this appeal to the chief daily papers 
of the State and to the religious papers also for publication. 


Be it resolved, third, 'That this Committee be designated 
as Trustees of said endowment fund ;that they be required to 
give bond to the amount of the fund; that they be required to 
invest said fund in government stock or other safe securities; 
that they be empowered to spend the interest in the care and 
improvement of the cemetery grounds, which shall always be 
kept clean and free of weeds and undergrowth, and as oppor- 
tunity and means offer be improved by being carefully laid 
off into lots and walks and planted with trees, shrubbery, and 
grass. 


Be it resolved, fourth, That these Trustees shall be self- 
perpetuating; that they shall make an annual report in writ- 
ing to be filed with the Secretary of this Association, said 
report to contain a detailed statement of the administration 
of the endowment fund, stating the nature of the invest- 
ments and giving an itemized account of the expenditure of 
the interest, accompanied by vouchers. 

In accordance with these resolutions, the following Com- 
mittee was appointed: Chairman, R. N. Brackett, Clemson 
College, S. C.; J. J. Lewis, Pickens, S. C.; Whitner Symmes, 
Greenville, S. C.; H. P. Sitton, Pendleton, S. C.; Dr. E. C. 
Doyle, Seneca, S. C.; J. C. Stribling, Pendleton, S. C. 

As an Auxiliary Committee, or Advisory Committee, the 
following ladies were appointed: Mrs. B. Frank Sloan, 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 9 


Seneca, S. C.; Mrs. Chas. Davant, Pendleton, S. C.; Mrs. R. 
N. Brackett, Clemson College, S. C. 
R. N. BRACKETT, 


Chairman Committee. 
March 4, 1902. 


Remittances should be sent to H. P. Sitton, Pendleton, 
pac. 


On motion of Major B. F. Sloan, the President appointed 
a Committee, consisting of Mr. H. P. Sitton, Drs. E. C. 
Doyle and R. N. Brackett, to confer with the officers or trus- 
tees of the Pendleton Presbyterian Church, and, if possible, 
obtain a title or a transfer of the Old Stone Church property 
to this Association and its successors, to be used by them 
entirely for the uses and purposes of a burial ground and reli- 
gious services as this Association may deem proper. The 
Treasurer’s annual report contains the statement that “the 
stone wall (around the cemetery) has been built as per con- 
tract, at a cost of $3.80 per cubic yard, amounting to 
$516.66.’ An election of officers for the ensuing year re- 
sulted as follows: President, Major J. J. Lewis; Secretary, 
Dr. R. N. Brackett; Treasurer, Mr. H. P. Sitton—the office 
of Secretary-Treasurer having been divided at this meeting. 

The annual meeting of the Association for 1902 was held 
at Old Stone Church, October 25, and was called to order by 
Dr. R. N. Brackett, in the absence of the other officers. Capt. 
J. Miles Pickens acted as Secretary. There was no annual 
address, as Col. W. S. Pickens, of Anderson County, who 
had been invited was unavoidably absent. Dr. Brackett 
made a verbal report of the work of the Committee on En- 
dowment Fund, appointed at the last annual meeting, with 
certain recommendations. This report gave briefly a state- 
ment in regard to the resolutions with reference to an endow- 
ment fund passed at the last annual meeting. Printed copies 
of the resolutions were distributed, and it was stated that 
these printed copies, together with a circular letter, had been 


10 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


sent to forty or fifty persons, in order to arouse interest until 
an appeal could be prepared. It was also stated that the 
thanks of the Association were due President H. S. Hart- 
zog, of Clemson College, S.C., for having printed the resolu- 
tions free of charge. It was recommended by Dr. Brackett: 
First, That members of the Association subscribe at once to 
the endowment fund in order to furnish a nucleus and act as 
a stimulus to others to contribute; second, That the appeal 
for an endowment fund take the form of a book containing 
all. the interesting historical matter about the Old Stone 
Church and Cemetery. Typewritten copies of Rev. Dr. 
Frierson’s annual address before the Association in 1894, 
and several other interesting items were exhibited by Dr. 
Brackett to illustrate the beginning that had been made in 
collecting material for a book such as has been suggested. . 
Mrs. P. H. Mell suggested printing all the historical records 
of the church. 

The following resolutions, offered by Mr. Samuel Mc- 
Crary, were adopted: 

“Resolved, first, That it is the sense of this Association 
that the historical records of the Old Stone Church, and other 
valuable historical matter in regard to the church, including: 
the donation of the land, copies of the deed or deeds, the sur- 
vey of the land, cut showing form and area, an account of the 
origin and formation of the church, list of members, and of 
the dead buried in the cemetery, cuts of the church and ceme- 
tery, an account of the Old Stone Church and Cemetery As- 
sociation, with a list of the members, and the most valuable 
addresses delivered before the Association—be collected, 
printed and sold, the proceeds to be used for the endowment 
fund.” 

“Resolved, second, That the Association subscribe a suffi- 
cient amount, if possible not to exceed $100, to defray the 
expenses of publishing this material, each member or other 
person subscribing $1.00 to a receive a copy without further 
cost.” 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 11 


“Resolved, third, That all who desire to remain members 
of this Association are requested and expected to pay all dues 
at once, and that the dues thus collected, in excess of what is 
necessary to meet the present indebtedness of the Associa- 
tion, be used to defray the expenses of publishing the history 
of the Old Stone Church.” 

The annual meeting of the Association for 1903 was held 
at Old Stone Church, October 10 and was called to order by 
President J. J. Lewis. The meeting was opened with prayer 
by Rev. W. S. Hamiter, of Seneca, S$. C. Col. James A. 
Hoyt, of Greenville, S. C., delivered the annual address, his 
subject being: ‘Jefferson Davis, the Soldier, Statesman and 
Citizen.” Dr. Brackett made a verbal report of progress in 
collecting material for the history of Old Stone Church. Dr. 
Brackett also reported having presented, with the approval of 
the President, a petition to the Pendleton Presbyterian 
Church for permission to this Association of erecting a care- 
taker’s house on the property, and stated that, while the peti- 
tion had been refused, the session of the Pendleton Church 
had expressed a willingness to discuss the matter further. 

On motion of Capt. J. Miles Pickens, the President ap- 
pointed a Committee of three, consisting of Dr. R. N. Brack- 
ett, Mr. Samuel McCrary and Capt. J. Miles Pickens, to con- 
fer with the Pendleton Church session in regard to the 
petition for permission to erect a care-taker’s house on 
the Stone Church property, with the privilege of dis- 
cussing the matter and adopting any: good plan for 
the proper discharge of our obligations as an Asso- 
ciation to care for the church and cemetery. The 
Secretary read the following resolution,* adopted by 
the Pendleton Church Session, defining, at the request of 
the Association, its rights and obligations with reference to 
the Old Stone Church property : 


* This resolution, the outcome of the conference suggested by Major 
B. F. Sloan at the annual meeting, 1901, was read and adopted at the 
annual meeting, 1902, and should have appeared in the minutes of that 
meeting. 


WS Oh ish lea 


12 THE OLD STONE BURG 


“Resolved, That in consideration of the interest taken in 
Old Stone Church, grounds and cemetery by the ‘Old Stone 
Church and Cemetery Association,’ we transfer to said Asso- 
ciation the care of said church, grounds and cemetery; with 
the power and privilege of disposing of lots in the cemetery 
for burial purposes, for such consideration as they see fit; 
renting the land suitable for cultivation, and selling such tim- 
ber as in their judgment needs being removed for the protec- 
tion of the forest, land.and property: Provided, They must 
use all money received from such sources towards improving 
and keeping in order the said church, grounds and cemetery, 
we reserving the right to cancel all the above if they fail to 
carry out the obligations named in this resolution. Adopted 
at a meeting of the Session Pendleton Presbyterian Church, 
August 31, 1902. 

“(Signed) H. P. Srrron, Clerk of Session.” 


A vote of thanks was tendered Col. James A. Hoyt by the 
Association for his scholarly and instructive address. 


The annual meeting of the Association for 1904 was held 
at Old Stone Church, August 31, with President J. J. Lewis 
in the chair. The meeting was opened with prayer by Rev. 
Hugh McLees. Owing to the unavoidable absence of Hon. 
J. E. Boggs, of Pickens, who had been invited to address the 
Association, there was no annual address. 

The Secretary reported progress in collecting material for 
the Old Stone Church History. The meeting was note- 
worthy on account of the presence of a number of members 
of the Andrew Pickens and Cateechee Chapters of the D. A. 
R., who held a meeting of their own after the adjournment 
of the Association, to consider plans for joining with this 
Association in restoring the Old Stone Church as a memorial 
to Generals Andrew Pickens and Robert Anderson. The 
old officers of the Association were re-elected for the ensuing 
year. 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 13 


CONSTITUTION OF THE OLD STONE CHURCH AND CEMETERY 
ASSOCIATION. 


ARTICLE I. This Society shall be designated and known as 
The Old Stone Church and Cemetery Association. 


Articugé II. That the objects of this Association are the 
preservation and perpetuation of the Old Stone Church build- 
ing and the improvement of the cemetery located there. Pro- 
vided, that nothing shall be done knowingly in violation of 
the trust imposed on said property in the deed therefor. 

ArticLe III. That this Association being voluntary in its 
formation, all persons desiring to become members. may do 
so by subscribing to the Constitution and By-Laws, and may 
continue their membership by paying the prescribed annual 
dues. 

ArticLe IV. That the annual dues for membership in said 
Association shall be the sum of one dollar, and the first an- 
nual dues shall be paid on joining the Association and ever 
after on or before the date of holding the annual meeting of 
the same. 

ArTICLE V. That there shall be an annual meeting of said 
Association at the Old Stone Church building and grounds 
on the first Wednesday of August in each succeeding year, 
with power in the President or Executive Committee to fix 
the day and change the same as circumstances may require, 
at which time a sermon shall be preached or an address de- 
livered by some one chosen and invited for that purpose by 
the President and Executive Committee or by the Executive 
Committee. 

ArTICLE VI. That the income from annual dues and such 
donations, contributions and subscriptions as shall from time 
to time be received and collected by the Association shall be 
kept on deposit by the Treasurer in some responsible bank 
and reserved as a fund for the improvement and beautifying 
of the grounds of the Old Stone Church, as said Association 
shall direct. 


14 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


ArTICLE VII. That the officers of this Association shall be 
a President, two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary and Treasurer, 
who shall be elected separately, by ballot, at each annual 
meeting of the Association, but in case of failure to elect as 
herein provided the incumbents shall hold and discharge all 
the duties incident to such offices until their successors shall 
be elected. 

ArticLé VIII. That there shall be an Executive Commit- 
tee of five persons appointed by the President-elect after each 
annual election of officers for said Association, to be com- 
posed of members of the Association from Anderson, Green- 
ville, Pickens and Oconee Counties, if practicable. 

Article [X. That no part of this Constitution can be 
changed, altered or amended except by a two-thirds vote of 
the members present at an annual meeting, provided, that 
such meeting shall have present over one-half of the members 
of the Association. But the operation of any by-laws may 
be temporarily suspended by a majority vote of a quorum for 
business at any meeting. 


By-LAwS OF THE OLD STONE CHURCH AND CEMETERY As- 
SOCIATION. 


Section 1. This Association shall convene annually as 
provided in the Constitution and at such other times as the 
President, with the concurrence of the Executive Committee, 
shall deem necessary and advisable, and the President shall at 
any time call a meeting upon the request in writing of five 
regular paying members of the Association, and the presence 
of nine members at any meeting shall constitute a quorum for 
business. 

Section 2. It shall be the duty of the President to preside 
at all meetings when present, to decide all questions of order, 
to appoint all Committees not otherwise ordered and to as- 
sume and discharge such other functions as usually pertain to 
presiding officers of deliberative bodies. 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 15 


Section 38. It shall be the duty of the Vice-Presidents, in 
the absence of the President to preside over all the meetings 
in order of their priority of rank. 

Section 4. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep a 
correct and permanent record of the proceedings of the meet- 
ings, to conduct the correspondence of the Association, make 
an annual report thereof and tansmit the records to his suc- 
cessor when elected. 

Section 5. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive, 
collect and hold all funds accruing and belonging to said As- 
sociation from annual dues and otherwise, and make an an- 
nual report thereof and to pay and turn over to his successor 
when elected all of said funds remaining in his hands. 

Section 6. It shall be the duty of the President and Sec- 
retary to give at least one month’s notice of the time and 
place of such annual meeting, by publication in such newspa- 
pers as they may think proper, without charge, if it can be so 
obtained. 

Section 7. It shall be the duty of the Executive Commit- 
tee in due time to make all the necessary arrangements at the 
Stone Church building and-grounds for holding the annual 
or other meetings of the Association and award all contracts 
for and superintend all work and improvements that may be 
authorized and directed by the Association, the same to be 
paid for out of the funds of the Association by the Treasurer, 
upon the order of the Executive Committee, who shall make 
a report in writing to the Association at the annual meeting. 


Oxtp STONE CHURCH AND CEMETERY ASSOCIATION. 


Members from 1893 to 1904. 


BOP RSA arOMhe utc eh). aye Calhoun, S. C. 
mors. cMitS A aTOM o iyn's {40s alle Calhoun, So 
Brackett, R. N. (Secty.) ..Clemson College, S. C. 
Brackett,; Mrs. Ro Ni... Clemson College, S. C. 
Brows, Mrs. Pred). ja) 3. Soke Anderson, S. C. 


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THE OLD STONE CHURCH 

Burgess, | Dr. (2 sal ane Stee ee Seneca, S. C. 
Carpenter; Mrs. fone pea Greenville, S. C. 
Cherry, Dri Bye rh i 
Cherry, Miss Mary George........ Seneca, S. C. 
Cochran;\Mirs:0].) Wei eee eee Calhoun} (Se: 
Connelly; Miss Leslee eee Atlanta, Ga. 
Davyant) Mirs. “Dr. (Chas sieaee Pendleton, S. C. 
Davis, Mrs. Joba sci.) :2)0% pio amnes Seneca, ec. 
Deawis, Wirsy Matte: i.8 Ge tats peers Seneca, S. €. 
Waris, Mirsy LS Ssh a eee Toccoa, Ga 
Waris: (Mrs Ve RE eel Veo seems Seneca, S. C 
Wendy: Miss Gora ot je dee eee Walhalla, S .C. 
*Dickson, Thomas .. Jia bs 

Doyle RiGee. 2 3 cseee Eber eae Seneca, S. C. 
DoyletOOR We yee wee. . Calhoun, S. C. 
“Doyle, Dry aM» cess detec te ee ec 
Doyle, Wai. eisai cvsesceneeoas Seneca, S. Cc. 
Aa se en Case Le. (esa a 
*Gantt Be Bese et a bd oe ee 
Gankh Mins! We Bho hei uie Male Pendleton; (Sa 
Goodman} i)i.S22 2 sisesc Gianeon College, S. C. 
Hartis. Bommeat osninaakign oai a. Pendleton, S. C 
Harrison,! Jamiesiearcis.6).\s).) ib hoeie cd cle er 
Hunter, Mrs. W.S. 2.2.1. sicccie se ss Deneea ana 
Joneses! ClintonvGs 4.8: shee Greenville, S. C. 
Lebby EE ya en ieee hie oh 6 or 
Lewis, J. J. (Bresident) Nils ME Pidkene Sve 
Livingston, Johns fo) G2 tciete de ean hae 
Livineston; Wits, Cy Kise ece.. baie Seneca; oe 
Manin Ing 2 eis sacrum este ....Pickens, Seige 
Maxwell, Miss Harriett.......... Pendleton, S. C. 
Mell, Miss Po Hl. 2 a) ..(Clemson College, Sie 
Myers, Mirsajotiny janice ehetse ae Seneca, hoe: 
McBrydesRey, Wa Le ee eee ae Soddy, Tenn. 
McBryde, Miss Lucy N........Montgomey, Ala. 


* Deceased. 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 1G 


Mec Bry dem Gcartdalt 3.2 31. 6 de yanks a yee 
Mic@imiry amie. ci de uh Autun, S. C. 
IVER: 2p 23.5 co's yo) anys, a lode cl alee Ss 
DVMSEREH ORY IMS 2 cfs ia Cais ae. WG woe ates ae. 
pre eeeCRS Gra SUIT OY? >.) fd. 5 hd Cea Reo 
PACTS 4 © NER a aca Oe es SUIS Cm eget Cray fs 
ptekens, Wiss, Biliza . 5 5's bie oi Pendleton, S. C. 
bens de NMUES ony 1s tesa Pendleton, S. C. 
eecnertsy Pie Ver Pw ic. iste Sian Pendleton, S. C. 
peataecavabsth a OCMC oy eyes oye tra tesch cea bt cane oh ea-als coho’ gra 
REidedeey se Si cle ese ae Reidville, S. C 
rere ubes, MS fey sict (eG ake Reidville, S. C 
In@ehester sh Dial). eit s es Greenville, S. C 
Rochester, Mrs. Cornelia....... Greenville, S. C 
Simpson, John W.. ii... 22). 2.1 - Pendleton, S. C 
SiPOmeavies FIC sre ats oid wa RE Pendleton, S. C 
Seton ela Pence eet Aly te 8 Pendleton, S. C 
Meta REL, Bt ot ek, Seiya, 4 Meeaudee chet Seneca, S. C. 
Byloratig Weiss se ORe. ay. aba hacen eee 2 Seneca, S. C. 
Snaythe, MrssAuT: 3..2i2 (2 dee Charleston, S. C 
RSENS EDM gpa dis eed Sisisicatieleeao Pelzer, S. C 
Seepnens (Wisc dk. oye che ae oho tats Pendleton, S. C 
Stephens, Mrs: Cy. ii.) 21) oe ie Pendleton, S. C 
italities Pei. y ac. Hee ay -fsts ove ess Pendleton, S. C 
Sinbling, Mrso Je Co)... ja. +. eudleton: SiC 
Surolares NGS. JE WS 2! Gis Seneca, S. C 
Swmnmness, ho VY shen a8 2 ye Sik nee Greenville, S. C. 
Wie Lem: Mine aT Ufa yedetee. \s.. |.) oc oeaeaen oe dc dalesebchel 
WMLietemies. Jigs 6a)d i. ded crstes Bal ae Pendleton, S. C. 
Woodside, Mrs. J. E.......... Greenville, S. C. 


It is apparent from the Constitution and records of the Old — 
Stone Church and Cemetery Association that, from its incep- 
tion, the Association had in view the restoration and preser- 
vation of the Old Stone Church building and the improve- 


* Deceased. 


18 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


ment and perpetual care of the cemetery and grounds. While 
the Association has done nothing as yet toward restoring the 
church building nor in improving the grounds, it has, with 
the assistance of many kind friends, erected a substantial 
stone fence around the cemetery and considerably enlarged 
the burial ground in so doing. The Association has also 
kept the cemetery in fairly presentable condition by having 
it cleaned out about twice annually. Very much remains to 
be done, and it was, as has been said, partly with a hope of 
exciting the interest of South Carolinians in this worthy 
work that this book has been compiled, and it is also with the 
same expectation of eliciting the sympathies and financial aid 
ci all patriotic South Carolinians, and others who have an 
interest in history, that the Andrew Pickens and Cateechee 
Chapters of the D. A. R. have joined with the Association in 
publishing this book, by pledging themselves for’$50 each to 
help defray the cost of publication. These two Chapters of 
the D. A. R. have for some time past been contemplating the 
erection of a monument to General Andrew Pickens, and his 
friend and associate, General Robert Anderson. They have 
now decided to let that monument take the form of a me- 
morial chapel, restoring for that purpose the Old Stone 
Church, in the organization, building and furnishing of 
which both of these worthy men took an active part, if not, 
indeed, the initiative. In so doing the Daughters of the 
American Revolution have adopted, with his consent, a long- 
cherished plan of Capt. W. A. Courtenay, who has probably 
done as much as, if not more than, any man in South Caro- 
lina to preserve her history and to stimulate the interest of 
others in the preservation of her historic landmarks. It is 
the intention of the Daughters of the Revolution to place on 
the walls of the restored church memorial tablets to Generals 
Pickens and Anderson. 

In view of the interest taken by the Daughters of the Rev- 
olution in the work of this Association and’ of the financial 
support they have given the Association in issuing this book, 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


19 


it seems proper to give here a list of the officers and members 
of these two Chapters: 


OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE ANDREW PICKENS CHAP- 


TER, D. A. R. 
Messi Mvell Regents 4. 2. 33. Clemson College, S. C. 
Mrs. Fanny Cherry Davis, Vice-Regent...... Seneca, S. C. 
Miss Mary Cherry, Secretary. ......:.. Ge reiaint ss Seneca, S.C. 
Mrs. P. T. Brodie, Registrar... .,. ...Clemson College, S. C. 
Miss Mary Shelor, Historian. .). 2.4. 004... Retrext, S.C: 
Mrs. R. N. Brackett, Treasurer..... Clemson College, S. C. 
Masoh kt. i. Calhoun, ...'.:.'.).. .. «,. «Clemson Coilege, S. C. 
Miss Lillian Caldwell. .....,... ERS a eat ge Seneca, S. C. 
irs, Sue Lewis Carpenter. ). .;.3..... a eRe: Seneca ip. 1C. 
Mrs. Ludie M. Coleman...... HE a eo ial Atlanta, Ga. 
Mrs. Ramsey Doyle..,....... HR AON RI fel. Collioure Ce 
Mrs. Fannie M. Duncan....... pi hea is 4 ca Seneca. S.C 
Upset Wu evais EV ati ber 2/2) wld) ties, dai sie y 6 hts Semecas one: 
BV gee WW VR ERtE ays Aye: (5 eats late se Clemson College, 'S. C. 
Relea mes EG LCE es. sis o sie ss eee ei Clemson College, S. C. 
Mins Clara Verner McCary « a). 215 cye016/015 Ss\se)s Seneca, S. C. 
Mrs Wo M. Rives. 40). ..\. neaeeee me Tele a College, S. C. 
Mrs. Winslow! Sloan... . 1. s.j.15'. Clemson College, S. C. 


OFFICERS AND MemBers oF THE CATEECHEE CHAPTER, 


DAR? 
Mrs. Wm. Laughlin, Regent............../ Anderson, §S. 
Miss Mary Russell, Vice-Regent........... _.Anderson, S. 
Mrs. A. P. Johnstone, Secretary. .j.. 1.5... Anderson, S. 
ure Ov Ly Dean, Revistran. ).}.0 0 vols. ...Anderson, S. 
Mrs. S. Bleckley, Historian........ RNa ule Anderson, S, 
Miron: Vandiver,) Ureasurer. 0! 3/0.) ....Anderson, S. 
MirseAueustus Anderson. .....,.050)0200'. Abbeville, S. 
Mrs. F.G. Brown...... Rea reer AIM Ne ae Anderson, S. 
Mise Chapman 4.)25 x. Ree pare ate Ae Anderson, S. 


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Mrs. Maxwell Crayton .....0..... + at ANCeRSanmaa tema 


Miss Emily Divver..... Ie MAL REARS a fa Anderson, S. C. 
Mrs Gps yl iin aan es van At Cokesbury, S. C 
Mirs.wAy) Co Lacohiing (eee bites Rieciaeies Anderson, S. C. 
Mins. WR. Be Dagon) ah 2 URS oi eae Anderson, S. C. 
Mrs. A. G. Means..... iol: eee (le ae Abe Anderson, S. C. 
Mors; Jib McGee says nos eae ee Anderson, S. C. 
Mrs. Josephine Peoples. ........... ‘dip Anderson, S. C. 
Mars aus Setlliam), vieey sinely dae othe see Anderson, S. C. 
Meas AGC, Strickland | ).0): leeds Diag een Anderson, S. C. 
Mars (Bessie Daylor iii hese teat aa ae Anderson, §. ‘C. 
Mrs. J. L. Tribble... 0. a) a. se Ae 
Mrs OURS an Wiyke sien aa ee stile as Anderson, S. C. 
Mirsel il. FES Watkaime ear i dil NE .. -Andersemiins ame: 


Dr. WILLIAM BAcKLy CHERRY, 


First President of the Old Stone Church and Cemetery 
Association. 


BY HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. FANNIE CHERRY DAVIS. 


William Backly Cherry, was born at Pendleton, S. C., 
November 22d, 1815; entered into rest December 24th, 1901. 
He was the son of Samuel Cherry and Susan Polk Reese and 
grand-son of Dr. Thomas Reese. He married at Pendleton, 
S. C., Sarah Miller Lewis, daughter of Col. J. Overton 
Lewis, with whom he lived happily for more than forty years. 
She was a woman of strong intellect and many fine traits of 
character, a true and faithful wife. Dr. Cherry was a 
dentist by profession, studied in Savannah and located in 
Athens, Ga. Love of old associations brought him back to 
Pendleton, where he practised for many years. His was a 
long and useful life, just and upright in all his dealings, 
truly a gentleman of the old school. His latter days were 
spent in Seneca, S. C.; “he possessed a keen observation, a 
wonderful memory, and his stories of the past were a rich 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 21 


treat.”” An intimate friend once said, “His was a beauti- 
fully rounded life.’ As he grew in years he grew in grace. 
In his own language, he “was only waiting for the Master’s 
call and ready at any moment for the summons.” ‘Though 
descended from strong Scotch-Irish ancestry, being a grand- 
son of Dr. Thomas Reese, he was a devoted member of the 
Episcopal Church, but loved and honored the Presbyterian 
faith. He lies buried at St. Paul’s Church, Pendleton, the 
place he loved so well, beside his beloved wife and daughter. 
Their memory is lovingly cherished by their children and 
grand-children. 


Dr. OriverR M. Doyte, 


Second President of the Old Stone Church and Cemetery 
Association. 


BY A LIFE-LONG FRIEND. 


It is doubtful if any man of his day and generation im- 
pressed himself more, and in more ways, on his immediate 
country than the subject of this sketch. We hear much of 
self-made men. He was one essentially and emphatically. 
He was born January 31st, 1831, in what was then Pickens 
District, now Oconee County, and died October 6th, 1897. 
His youth and early manhood therefore were spent in the 
troublous times from 1850 to 1876, the first decade of which 
period was disturbed by the agitations over the slavery ques- 
tion and Secession. The next five years with the Civil War, 
and the remaining eleven with Reconstruction. As a boy 
he had the advantage of only that education which was ob- 
tainable in the ordinary, old field country schools of that day. 
His first knowledge of the world was obtained by going to 
Washington with Congressman James L. Orr as one of his 
Secretaries. While in Washington, through Col. Orr’s in- 
fluence, he was offered what was then regarded as quite a 
lucrative position as Clerk in one of the Departments. He 


22 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


declined to accept it, not because he did not need the salary— 
he needed it badly, as he was very poor—but because his 
observation of men and things there led him to the conclusion 
that the life of a clerk with a good salary and only routine 
work to do was enervating and dwarfing. “Once a Clerk, 
- always a Clerk.” He deliberately declined the place and 
made up his mind to study medicine, though he was fully 
aware that nothing short of a hard, desperate struggle for 
ways and means would enable him to reach his goal. ‘The 
writer has frequently heard him say that this was the turning 
point in his life. He forewent the ease and pleasures of the 
life of the well paid clerk, and entered upon the struggle to 
master the profession he had chosen. By dint of hard work 
and the practice of the most rigid economy he was enabled to 
enter the University of Pennsylvania and was graduated in 
medicine from that institution in 1856, and immediately 
began the practice of his profession at his old home in Pick- 
ens District. He was among the first of the volunteers to 
enter the Confederate Army. He went in as Captain, but 
was soon afterwards made Surgeon of Jenkins’ Brigade, 
which position he held throughout the war. His duties and 
opportunities in this position were performed in such manner 
as to give him eminence in his profession, and soon after- 
wards, when the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad 
was built, he became Surgeon of the road, which position he 
held up to the day of his death. His reputation as a physi- 
cian and surgeon, especially the latter, became such that his 
practice extended over much of the territory of the States of 
both South Carolina and Georgia. His achievements in an 
industrial way and in civic matters were not less than as a 
Physician and Surgeon. His fine judgment and foresight 
enabled him, about the time of the building of the Air Line 
Railroad, now operated as a part of the immense Southern 
Railway, to make judicious investments in real estate both in 
South Carolina and Georgia, that' brought him in handsome 
harvests in later life, and these, added to the fruits of the 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 23 


labors of his profession, made him financially, at the time of 
his death, one of our most substantial citizens. He was in 
no sense a politician, in the popular and low-meaning of that 
term, but early in life he became noted for his far-seeing, 
clear-headed sizing up of all questions pertaining to govern- 
ment matters and the good of his country, and for his out- 
spoken, sturdy honesty in maintaining his opinions. And as 
a result of this reputation he was appointed, in 1868, a mem- 
ber of the Commission of five persons to select a site for the 
County seat and to erect a Court House and Jail for Oconee 
County, upon its creation by the Constitution of that year. 
The next year he was made a member of the Legislature and 
served two terms in that body. He was a member of the 
Constitutional Convention of 1895—again being selected to 
serve his country to assist in framing her fundamental laws, 
because of his foresight, honesty and broad-minded conser- 
vatism, and for having the courage of his convictions always. 
He devoted much of his time while in this Convention in the 
endeavor to get written into the Constitution two principles: 
the one to stop the practical confiscation of small estates by 
costs and fees in the process of being wound up; and the 
other, to provide for the elimination of the profit feature 
from the dispensary law. The one, the lawyers of the Con- 
vention succeeded in defeating, on the plea that the Consti- 
tution was not the place for such a provision; but the agita- 
tion then started has since resulted in legislation which has 
accomplished the purpose then recognized as good by all 
right-thinking men. The other was completely defeated— 
swept away by the commercial spirit which was then begin- 
ning to gain ground so rapidly. But who is now prepared 
to deny that if his idea had prevailed, most, if not all, of the 
scandals in government that have sprung from the dispensary 
system and its methods of enforcement would have been 
avoided? And that we would by now have truly had under 
the system the minimum of evils of the liquor traffic? Asa 
member of the Presbyterian Church, Dr. Doyle’s life was no 


24 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


less distinguished than in other ways. He was an Elder of 
the Richland Church in his latter days, and attended the 
Presbyteries frequently, and was a devout Christian always. 
Only a few of his most intimate friends knew the extent of 
his private charities, his giving being always of that character 
which ‘“Vaunteth not itself and is not puffed up.” 


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THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


OLD STONE CHURCH PROPERTY. 
DoNATION OF THE LAND FOR THE OLD STONE CHURCH. 


ANDERSON C. H., S. C., January 14, 1903. 

Mr. R. N. Brackett—Dear Sir: I have carefully examined 
the records in the differert offices here for the purpose of 
ascertaining from them as much as I| could in reference to the 
history of the “Old Stone Chuch,” and I shall now endeavor 
to give you the results of my investigations. You will re- 
member that in the latter part of my article about John Mil- 
ler, the printer, I stated that he moved to Pendleton in 1785, 
and that in that year he obtained a grant for a tract of land on 
both sides of the Eighteen Mile Creek, said to contain 640 
acres, and that he died at Pendleton in 1809; that he had a 
son John who assisted him in the publication of his paper, 
and that his son John also had a son named John. After 
the death of old John, the printer, his son John then became 
John Miller, Sr., because he was senior to his own son John, 
and he is so styled in the papers to which I shall refer, and 
which were executed by him after his father’s death, and this 
fact must be remembered, in order to avoid the error of sup- 
posing that John Miller, Sr., means old John Miller, the 
printer. 

I referred you to a granite slab in one corner of the build- 
ing, at the rear, which shows when it was erected, and you 
wrote me that the date inscribed thereon was 1797. Then 
the church building was erected by the Hopewell congrega- 
tion in the lifetime of old John Miller, the printer, and with 
his full knowledge and consent; and that they did so upon 
his promise that they should have a sufficient amount of land 
for their church building and a cemetery, is an irresistible 
imference. Without it the congregation never would have 
taken the action they did, and that this was well understood 
in the family will be shown by facts hereafter stated. 

I was anxious to see the will of John Miller, the printer, 
because I thought it might contain some reference to this 


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condition of his affairs, as he himself had never made a deed 
to the congregation for the land on which they erected their 
church building. This will is dated the 16th of May, 1807, 
two years before. his death, and the only clause in it having 
any reference to the subject matter of inquiry is in these 
words: “I give and bequeath to my two sons, John Miller 
and Crosby Wilks Miller, my plantation on the Eighteen 
Mile Creek, to be equally divided between them, or as they 
may agree,” and he appointed these two sons and his friend, 
Col. John B. Earle, the executors of his will. 

In Book O., p. 430, I found the record of an agreement 
between John and Crosby W. Miller for the partition of a 
tract of land containing 623 acres, which they allege that 
John Miller, the father of the said John and Crosby W. Mil- 
ler, had devised to them by his will; said land lying on both 
sides of the Eighteen Mile Creek, and on which both of them 
then resided, each taking the share which fell to him in the 
division. This agreement is dated September 23, 1819. 

Then again, in Book S, p. 320, I found the record of an- 
other agreement between John and Crosby W. Miller about 
the dividing line. This agreement is dated 17th August, 
1826. What the necessity was for any new agreement be- 
tween them about the dividing line is not explained by this 
instrument, as it-should have been. I shall give you the 
substance of it, as it throws light on some other matters. It 
contains the same recital as the foregoing agreement between 
them, viz: that John Miller, father of the said John and 
Crosby Miller, having by his will devised to them a tract of 
land containing by a resurvey 296 acres, adjoining land 
on which Crosby Miller now lives, on a branch of 
Eighteen Mile Creek, commonly known as Meeting 
House Branch, and on which tract the meeting house 
now stands. Sixteen and three-quarter acres John and 
Crosby have made a title to the congregation com- 
monly known as the Hopewell congregation, for the 
purpose of a meeting house and burying ground, which 


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16 3-4 acres is on the side which by the dividing line falls to 
C. W. Miller, but for which he is allowed half the number of 
acres taken out of the whole tract. In this division Crosby 
took that part on which the meeting house stands, and adjoin- 
ing the land on which he lived. This is all badly enough 
expressed, and I have been led to believe that these papers 
were never drawn up by a lawyer, if so he was certainly not 
a skillful one. There is no record of the deed of John and 
Crosby to the congregation, that I could find, and, therefore, 
the “meets and bounds” of the 16 3-4 acres cannot be given. 
But they recite in the above paper that they had made a deed 
to the congregation for the same, and that is all the evidence 
there is of the fact. Their deed to the congregation was 
undoubtedly made after the death of their father in 1809, 
because his will had no effect to vest this land in them till his 
death. 

These papers plainly show that John and Crosby Miller 
were the sons of John Miller, the printer, and if these facts 
were summarized in their chronological order, I think the 
following statement contains the true history of the “Old 
Stone Church:” The tract of land on which their building 
stands was granted to John Miller, the printer, in 1785. In 
1797 the Hopewell congregation, in the lifetime of John 
Miller, the printer, with his full knowledge and consent, 
erected their church building; and, as I have said, that they 
did so upon his assurance that they should have enough of 
the land for their building and a cemetery is an imference 
irresistible, otherwise the congregation would not have acted 
as they did. This makes it manifest to me that John Miller, 
the printer, himself donated the land to the church. By his 
will he gave the tract of land on which the church building 
and cemetery stood to his two sons, John and Crosby. From 
the erection of the church building in 1797 to the death of 
John Miller, the printer, in 1809, was a period of 12 years, 
during which time the church building and cemetery were 
standing there with the full knowledge and consent of John 


3—O. S. C. 


28 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


Miller, the printer, and these two sons, John and Crosby W., 
in order to carry out the understanding between the congre- 
gation and their father, executed a title to the congregation 
for 16 3-4 acres, as they allege in their agreement for a parti- 
tion of the same between themselves. ‘This, I am satisfied, 
-is a true history of the matter. 

You at one time asked me about the dead who were buried 
there. I have recently heard that Generals Pickens and An- 
derson are among the number. If so, their history is to be 
found in Ramsay’s History of South Carolina, a book I once 
had and would lend you, but some friend borrowed it and 
never returned it, as borrowers of books generally do. An- 
derson and Pickens Counties derived their names from these 
two gentlemen. 

Hoping that my labors may profit you, 

I am, very respectfully, 
(Signed ) A. T. BRoyLEs. 


South Carolina, Oconee County. 


The above plat represents the Old Stone Church lot, situate 
in the State and County above named. At the request of H. 
P. Sitton and M. M. Hunter, representatives of the Pendle- 
ton Presbyterian Church, I have this day surveyed the above 
lot and find it to contain sixteen and 94-100 acres 
(16 94-100) and to have the boundings, marks, bearings and 
distances shown above. 

(Signed ) J. P. Smitru, Surveyor. 

March 138, 1894. 

SENECA, S. C., May 10, 1894. 


The above is a true copy of plat and certificate of plat of 
Old Stone Church lot made by J. P. Smith, and is entered in 
this book by me for convenience of the Old Stone Church 
and Cemetery Association. 

B. F. Sioan, Secretary and Treasurer 
O. S. C. & C. Association. 


LO HIYNHD INOLIYI7IOC 


SIYIV PO9/ 


Hoyo 
wOL S070 


30 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


JOHN MILLER, THE PRINTER, 
THE FOUNDER OF THE PENDLETON WEEKLY MESSENGER. 


(The News and Courier, Charleston, Wednesday morning, 
December 25, 1889). 


An interesting sketch of this pioneer newspaper man of 
the upper section of South Carolina. His connection with 
the letters of Junius. 


(Major A. T. Broyles, in the Anderson Journal.) 


In compliance with your request, I herewith send you a 
biographical sketch of John Miller, who about the beginning 
of the present century published, at Pendleton, Miller's 
W eekly Messenger, the first newspaper ever published in this 
County. This paper he continued to publish until the year 
1806, when its name was changed to the Pendleton Messen- 
ger, which was afterwards so ably edited by Dr. F. W. 
Symmes and Governor Francis Burt. 

John Miller was an Englishman, and resided in the city 
of London. He was one_of fifteen parties who owned the 
London Evening Post, as the account book of that. paper 
shows, and was connected with it from 1769 to 1780. This 
account book, which was most neatly kept, together with 
many other interesting manuscripts, have been kindly fur- 
nished me for the purposes of this sketch by Mr. S. F. W. 
Miller, his great-grand-son, by whom they have been care- 
fully preserved. From this account book it appears to have 
been the practice of the partners to appoint a committee of 
their number from time to time to examine these accounts, 
and in 1775 Henry Sampson Woodfall, the publisher of the 
celebrated Letters of Junius, was one of the committee ap- 
pointed at that time, showing that he was also a partner. The 
letters of Junius, however, were published by Woodfall in the 
Daily Advertiser. The object of these letters was to de- 
nounce official corruption wherever it existed, whether in the 


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Ministry, the Parliament, or the Judiciary, and to hold it up 
to the odium and execration of the English people. The 
author, whoever he was, was undoubtedly a man of splendid 
genius, and the boldness and intrepidity with which he used 
his polished weapons, sparing neither rank nor station, 
cannot fail to command the admiration of mankind. For 
simplicity, force and elegance of diction these letters are 
unsurpassed by any other compositions in our language. 

Who the author really was is even to-day a matter of spec- 
ulation, but he undoubtedly despised the honors of author- 
ship, for in assigning all his right, title and interest in these 
letters to Woodfall as fully and effectually as it was possible 
for any author to do, no doubt as a reward for what he had 
suffered by their publication, he declared that he alone was 
the repository of his own secret and that it should die with 
him. At last he addressed one of these letters to George III., 
the King himself. It was first published by Woodfall in 
the Daily Advertiser, and immediately thereafter it was re- 
printed by John Miller in the London Evening Post, and by 
Almon, a book-seller. 

Without going into details further than may be necessary 
to show the importance of the issues involved and the interest 
which these cases excited, Lord Campbell’s account of the 
matter is simply this: That the Attorney General at once filed 
criminal information against all three of these parties. In 
the case against Almon, who was defended by Sergt. Glyn, 
it was not denied that the letter was a libel, but it was insisted 
that the purchase of the letter at the shop of Almon, who was 
a bookseller and publisher of pamphlets, from a person in the 
shop acting as his servant, with his name on the title-page as 
publisher, was not sufficient evidence to convict Almon of the 
publication. But Lord Mansfield instructed the jury that in 
the absence of any proof that Almon was not privy or assent- 
ing to it, a sale of the letter by Almon’s servant was prima 
facie evidence of a publication of the matter, and the jury 
found a verdict of guilty. 


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In the case of Woodfall a different course was pursued. 
There was no doubt of his liability as publisher, but it was 
denied that the letter was libellous, and the grand dispute 
which then arose was whether the libellous character of the 
paper was a question for the jury, or one of law exclusively 
for the Court. Lord Mansfield held that the simple inquiry 
for the jury was whether the defendant printed and published 
the letter charged in the information as libellous. Having 
done their duty in this respect, the question whether the paper 
was a libel or not was a question of law for the Court. The 
jury were out many hours, but having at length agreed they 
were taken in coaches from Guildhall to Lord Mansfield’s 
house in Bloomsbury square, where the foreman rendered in 
a verdict of “Guilty of the printing and publishing only.” 

The legal result of this finding being doubtful, Lord Mans- 
field granted a new trial, but Woodfall was from that time 
safe, as there was not a jury in London that would have 
found a verdict of “guilty” against the publisher of Junius. 
On the trial of John Miller, Lord Campbell says: “Half the 
population of London were assembled in the streets sur- 
rounding Guildhall, and remained several hours impatiently 
expecting the result. Lord Mansfield had retired to his 
house, and many thousands proceeded thither in a grand 
procession when it was announced that the jury had agreed. 
At last a shout proceeding from Bloomsbury square and 
reverberated from the remotest quarters of the metropolis, 
proclaimed a verdict of not guilty.” 

These three famous cases were tried in the latter part of 
the year 1770, a short time before our Declaration of Inde- 
pendence. A summary of the law as laid down by Lord 
Mansfield was that the jury were not only limited 
to the simple inquiry whether the defendant printed 
and published the paper charged to be libellous, but 
that in making up their verdict upon the issue they 
had no right to inquire into the intention of the de- 
fendant, as in other criminal prosecutions, or into the 


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innocence or criminality of the paper charged to be malicious 
and seditious, because these were questions of law for the 
Court, to be determined by the Court upon the mere reading 
of the record. This he maintained had been the law of Eng- 
land from the Revolution of 1688, and that no complaint had 
ever been made of it, until the reign of George III. 

There was no doubt of the sincerity and honesty of his 
convictions, and that he was sustained by precedent. But it 
is evident that the law was founded upon the notion of 
imposing some limitations and restraints upon the freedom 
of the press, because if the jury were permitted to inquire 
into those matters which were held to be questions of law 
for the Court, they would have been at once invested with 
the power of deciding questions of law, as well as the facts, 
in a libel case, and this it was apprehended would lead to a 
freedom of discussion that would be subversive of law and 
order. The law thus laid down was denounced as an 
invasion of the province of the jury, an attack upon the 
liberty of the press, and dangerous to the liberties of the 
people. In fact, it would seem that very little of the public 
attention had been attracted to this condition of the law of 
libel until the time of Junius, when these three prosecutions 
were commenced. His letters had been read with universal 
applause, and no doubt the great name of Junius aroused 
much of the public interest which was manifested in these 
cases. But they also involved an important constitutional 
principle, and their trial was therefore attended by an 
intense public excitement. The question was an important 
one, and brought into requisition the talent and learning of 
some of the most distinguished men in England. 

It may not be an uninteresting digression to say that no 
man ever won a more splendid forensic victory than that 
which was achieved by Lord Camden over the great Lord 
Mansfield, when he challenged him to a discussion of his law 
of libel. Lord Camden had said that if he could obtain a 
copy of the opinion, and it should appear to him contrary to 


34 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


the known and established principles of the Constitution, 
he would not scruple to tell the author of his mistake boldly 
and openly in the House of Lords. Lord Mansfield there- 
upon caused a copy of the opinion in the case of Woodfall 
to be filed with the assistant clerk of the House. 

Lord Camden, after inspecting it, said that he considered 
this action as a challenge directed to him personally, and 
that he accepted it. “He (Lord Mansfield) has thrown 
down the gauntlet and I take it up. His doctrine is not the 
law of England, and I am ready to enter into the debate 
whenever the noble lord will fix a day for it. I desire and 
insist that it shall be an early one.” Lord Mansfield was 
much confused by the questions propounded by Lord Cam- 
den as the basis of the debate. Aware of the strong alliance 
which existed between Lord Camden and Lord Chatham, 
who would be aided by the Duke of Richmond and other 
allies, and that he himself had no one to give him the slight- 
est assistance in the debate, his courage forsook him and he 
seemed so much distressed that the matter was allowed to 
drop. 

Lord Mansfield himself lived to see the day when his 
doctrine on this subject was subverted by Mr. Fox’s Libel 
Bill, and that Bill and Lord Campbell’s Libel Bill, which 
was subsequently passed, have settled the law of libels sub- 
stantially upon its present basis. ‘The important constitu- 
tional principle thus established is contained in Section 8 
of the Declaration of Rights, Article I., of our present State 
Constitution, which, among other things, declares that in 
all indictments for libel the jury shall be judges of the law 
and the facts, a doctrine which is now universally recognized 
in this country. 

These three cases which led to this result have passed into 
history ; and although John Miller, the subject of this sketch, 
was only a defendant in one of these prosecutions, in which 
he was sought to be victimized by an administration which 
regarded freedom of speech as dangerous to the safety of 


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the State, yet even in this capacity he is entitled to his share 
of the celebrity these cases have acquired. His name has 
been thus associated with the settlement of a very important 
constitutional question, and with the freedom of the press. 

Disgusted, no doubt, with a country where it was deemed 
criminal to publish an appeal to the King to mediate between 
his Ministry and the people, and to afford his subjects that 
redress they were entitled to demand, he left his native 
shores and atrived in Philadelphia in January, 1783, shortly 
after the news of the evacuation of Charleston in December, 
1782, had been received in England. Our delegation in 
Congress at that time consisted of Edward Rutledge, 
Thomas Haywood, Thomas and Arthur Middleton, and 
by them he was sent to Charleston to be printer to the State. 
There he commenced the publication of the South Carolina 
Gazette and General Advertiser, and in his prefatory address 
he said that his ambition could not have been more truly 
gratified than by finding himself the printer of the Common- 
wealth of South Carolina. 

His family followed him to Charleston, and reached there 
in November, 1783. Mr. William L. King, in his little 
work entitled ““The Newspaper Press of Charleston,’’ gives 
an account of him, and makes many extracts from his 
editorials, which are very creditable to him. He sold the 
Gazette and Advertiser to Timothy & Mason and went to 
Pendleton about the year 1785, for during that year he 
obtained from his Excellency, Benjamin Guerard, a grant 
for a tract of land containing 640 acres on Eighteen-mile 
Creek, which, as the writer is informed, was on both sides 
of said creek, on the road from Pendleton to Fort Hill. 

There has been placed in my possession a copy of the 
City Gazette, of Charleston, containing-a communication 
dated “Pendleton County, Washington District, September 
25, 1795,” made by John Miller, corresponding secretary of 
the “Franklin or Republican Society of Pendleton County,” 
asking the publication of the preamble and resolutions pre- 


36 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


pared by him for the society, and adopted by the several 
brigades at the Governor’s Reviews, denouncing the treaty 
concluded in 1794 by Mr. Jay with England and expressive 
of strong sympathy with France. At the request of General 
Washington, Mr. Jay resigned the Chief Justiceship of the 
Supreme Court of the United States to effect this treaty, 
but it was bitterly denounced in the United States Senate 
and in many parts of the country. 

There is a memorandum in Miller’s own handwriting, 
stating that in 1795 he had made proposals for the publica- 
tion of a newspaper, but that the project had been postponed 
until now that the rapid increase of population in the back 
country had rendered it practicable. There is no doubt that 
it was then he commenced the publication of Miller’s Weekly 
Messenger, but as the memorandum is without date, it is 
impossible to fix the precise time. 

John Miller died at Pendleton in 1809, and was buried 
at the “Old Stone Church.” He left behind him many 
highly-respected descendants, most of whom reside in 
Anderson County. His son John, who assisted him in the 
publication of the Pendleton Messenger, had five sons and 
as many daughters. One of these sons was also named 
John, who remained in this county, and was the father of 
Mr. S. F. W. Miller and Dr. Thaddeus Miller. The other 
sons all removed West. The daughters were Miss Jane 
Miller, who died at Pendleton, Mrs. Charlotte Kay, Mrs. 
Duke, Mrs. Sharpe and Mrs. Wilson. Mrs. Elizabeth 
Sharpe was the mother of Elam Sharpe, who married 
Governor Hayne’s daughter; Dr. Marcus L. Sharpe, our 
fellow-townsman, Edwin Sharpe, and Miss Elizabeth 
Sharpe, who married the Rev. John M. Carlisle, and these 
are his descendants so far as I have been able to ascertain. 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 37 


JOHN MILLER AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 


(BY MRS. JULIA MILLER-BROWN, DENVER, S. C.) 


Three John Millers are buried at the Old Stone Church; 
father, son and grand-son. The first John Miller was born 
in London, England, about 1730; he was one of the fifteen 
partners who owned and published The London Evening 
Post and The Advertiser at the time that the famous “Junius 
Letters” were published in those papers. He with two other 
partners, Henry Sampson Woodfall and Mr. Almon, were 
tried for libel before the General Assizes in London in 1775 
for publishing those letters. History says that the largest 
crowd ever seen assembled in the house and in the streets oi 
London during the trial and evinced the greatest enthusiasm 
when they were found “Not Guilty.” These three men, 
Henry Sampson Woodfall, Mr. Almon and John Miller, no 
doubt knew who was the author of the Junius Letters, but 
the secret died with them. Many believed that John Miller 
himself was the author, as his handwriting and that of the 
manuscript of the “Junius Letters’ were very much alike. 
John Miller’s penmanship is very neat and peculiar as is 
shown by the ledger kept by him of The London Evening 
Post from 1769 to 1778, which ledger well preserved is still 
in the possession of his descendants in this vicinity. 

In 1782 he came to America, landing at Philadelphia. 
From there he came with his family to Charleston, S. C., in 
1783 and began the publication of the South Carolina Gazette 
and General Advertiser, one of the first papers ever published 
in the State. After the treaty with the Indians in this part 
of the country he was given a grant of 640 acres of land by 
Gov. Benjamin Guerard, the land lying on both sides of 
Eighteen Mile Creek near Pendleton and including the site 
on which the Old Stone Church now stands. He, or his son, 
Crosby Miller, deeded* the site to the Trustees of the Hope- 


*See paper by Major Broyles on the donation of the land, p. 25. 


38 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


well Church. After getting this grant of land he and his 
family moved from Charleston to Pendleton in 1785; this 
was then known as Pendleton District. Here he commenced 
the publication of The Pendleton Weekly Messenger, and 
continued to own and publish it until his death, in 1809. It 
was the first paper published in upper South Carolina. 

After his death, his son, the second John Miller, took pos- 
session of the paper and published it until his death, in 1822. 
This second John Miller was born in the city of London in 
1770, and came with his father to Charleston in 1783. He 
married Jane Gray, in 1791; to them were born twelve chil- 
dren; many of them are buried beside himself and his wife 
in the Old Stone Church-yard. 

The third John Miller was one of these twelve children. 
He was born in Pendleton, in 1794. He was for thirty years 
a printer in The Pendleton Messenger office, and was known 
generally as Printer John Miller. In 1818 he married Lydia 
Ann Perdreau, ward and adopted daughter of Col. Samuel 
Warren, who was a brave soldier in the Revolutionary War 
and a man of wealth and culture. John and Lydia Miller 
had six children; she died in 1862 and he in 1876. Both 
of them, with four children, are buried at the Old Stone 
Church. One of their daughters, who is buried there, mar- 
ried Patrick J. Miller, one of the Scotch-Irish Millers of 
Abbeville, in no way related to the English Miller family. 

Crosby Miller and two of his wives are buried there; he 
was the son of the first John Miller. ‘These Millers are 
buried in the northeast corner of the graveyard nearest to 
the church. Only a few of the graves have tomb-stones. 

The Sarah Calhoun Miller buried near the middle of the 
grave-yard was first married to a Mr. Ledbetter, and was the 
mother of Col. Daniel Ledbetter, a Confederate soldier of 
Orr’s Regiment, who was killed at the Second Battle of Ma- 
nassas. Her last husband was John C. Calhoun Miller, a 
descendant of the Scotch-Irish Calhouns and Millers, of 
Abbeville, and one of the Signers of the Ordinance of Seces- 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 39 


sion, as a member of the Legislature from Pickens and Oco- 
nee Counties. 

Note by the Editor: Mrs. Browne writes in a private 
letter: “The information I give you is reliable, culled from 
data in my possession. Iam the great-great-grand-daughter 
of the first John Miller, great-grand-daughter of the sec- 
ond John Miller, grand-daughter of the third John Miller, 
and daughter of Sarah J. Miller, all of whom are buried in 
the Old Stone Church-yard. My mother married Patrick J. 
Miller, my father, who was a brother of John Calhoun Mil- 
ler, whose wife is buried also in this grave-yard.” 


40 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


Transcript—Extract of the Earliest Session Book of Hopewell 
Congregation. 


The Presbyterian Chh at Pendleton old Court House was 
organized in the year of our Lord 1790, by the name of the 
Hopewell (Keowee) Presbyterian Society.* 

Ministers——The Rev. Thomas Reese D. D. was Installed 
Pastor of the Society in 1792 & died 1796, aged 54 years. 
He was buried in the old burying-place, & a stone with in- 
scription marks the spot. He was a graduate of Princeton 
College, 1768. He pursued his studies with an ardour which 
injured his health & abridged his life. He left behind him 
the character of a distinguished scholar, an able preacher & 
an eminently pious man. 


The Rey. Montgomery, D. D., supplied the So- 
ciety two years after the death of Dr. Reese. 

The Rev. James McElhenney was Installed Pastor of the 
Society in 1801, & died Oct. 4, 1812, aged 44. He was 
buried in the old burying-place, & a slab with an inscription 
marks the spot. - 

His mind was strong & lucid rather than brilliant. His 
was the eloquence of profound nervous reasoning rather than 
of fancy & of passion. Sometimes it was persuasion of the 
most touching tenderness. His pulpit performances always 
acceptable & solemn varied in excellence when compared with 
themselves. 


The Rey. Murphy, son-in-law to the preceeding & 
who was his assistant two or three years, died Sept., 1812. 
He was buried in the old burying-place near Mr. McEthenny, 
but the spot has no designation. 


*“The name of this church several years ago was changed from Hope- 
well (Keowee) to Hopewell (Pendleton), and at the meeting of the 
Presbytery of South Carolina at Richland Church, in September, 1882, 
the Hopewell was dropped and the name now is simply Pendleton. 

Carver Ranpatz, Clerk of Session.” 

Copied from “Session Book of Hopewell (Keo.) Church, commenced 
May, 1852. T. L. McBryde, Pastor; E. B. Benson, Sydney Cherry, 
Elam Sharpe, I. EK. Smith, Elders.” 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 41 


The Rev. James Hillhouse received an invitation to the 
pastoral care of the Society, March, 1816, & was ordained 
April, 1817. He removed to Alabama Nov., 1822. His 
labours were blessed by a very considerable accession of 
members to the Chh. 

The Rev. Anthony W. Ross received an invitation to the 
pastoral care of the Society, March, 1823. He resigned his 
pastoral charge in August, 1827. 

The Rey. Aaron Foster received an invitation to the pas- 
toral care of the Society, March, 1828. 

The Clergymen previous to Mr. Hilhouse divided their 
time equally between Pendleton & Carmel. Mr. H — & Ross 
were employed by Pendleton Society two-thirds of the time. 

Houses of Worship.—The first house was erected 1790 
of logs, about 80 rods east of the late Ezekiel Pickens’ 
dwelling, on the north side of the road. The spot is now 
crown over with trees. 

The second House is a durable & commodious building 
of rock, finished in 1800. As this building was not central 
for the Society, & as it was two miles from the village, the 
Society erected a framed building near the village in 1824, 
to which they removed as their place of worship. 

Elders—Gen. Andrew Pickens, Gen. Robert Anderson 
& Dickson were chosen elders when the chh was 
organized. 

George Reese & John Harris were elected in 1803. 
Crosby W. Miller, 1815. Josius D. Gaillard, Elam Sharp 
& John B. Hammond were elected Elders 1821. 

Charles Story was admitted from the Chh of Black River 
as an Elder of Pendleton Chh in 1818. 

Rey. A. Foster resigned his charge in May, 1832, and 
went to the North, having preached exclusively to the Hope- 
well congregation from March, 1828, with a salary at the 
rates of $600 pr year. His preaching was acceptable; his 
sermons have much originality & great variety. 

William Walker elected Elder in 1831. 


42 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


Rev. Truman Osborn was invited to preach on the first . 
of May, 1832, by the Hopewell congregation, at the rate of 
$600 pr annum; resigned in Oct. the same year. 

Members in some instances have left the chh by removals 
without letters of dismission, & in some instances by with- 
drawing from communion without the notice or permission 
of the chh. Who are now members of the chh is known 
only by oral report, no chh records having been preserved 
up to this date March 16, 1830. 

The preceeding sketch has been collected from members 
of the Society, & is true according to the best of their recol- 
lection. 

The Stone Church was built by subscription the principal 
contributors was Gen. Andrew Pickens Gen. Anderson Geo. 
Reese William Steele Capt. Mc. Caleb Maj. Taylor Mr. 
Neale Wm. Mc. Guffin Hardy Owens Mr. Whitner Mr. Cal- 
houn & Gen. Earle. The seats & pulpit was furnished by 
Gen. Pickens individually. 

Dr. Thomas Reese was buried near the Stone Church in 
1796 the place was selected by Gen. Pickens Major Taylor 
Williams Steele & Mr. Calhoun of 12 mile. 

Rev. Richard B. Cater was invited by the congregation to 

become their pastor on the 5th of Sep. 1832. 
- Oct. 4th. 1832 the Hopewell Congregation met and for- 
warded a call by Crosby W. Miller to the Presbytery of 
South Carolina the call was signed by John Harris C. W. 
Miller Elam Sharpe Charles Miller William Miller Joseph 
F. Miller George Miller Ezekiel Harris John E. C. Harris 
William Gaston Hugh D. Gaston E.. B. Benson Noah Archer 
Joseph Harris. 

Names of the Members of the Pendleton (Hopewell 
Keowee) Presy church inserted by recollection May 4, 1830. 


Esther Steele moved Charles Story & Lady 
Lorton Elizabeth Ross 
Eizabeth Starke Ethalinda Hunter 
Charles Miller & Lady moved Wm Gaston moved 
Geo. Miller & Lady moved Prissilla Gaston moved Died 1854 


Elam Sharpe & Lady Nancy Steele moved 


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Elizabeth Whitner 

Sarah Ledbetter 

Geo. Reese Sen Died Nov.11, 1837. 
Brother of Dr. Thomas Reese, 
D2 D; 

Anna Reese 

Mary Ann Reese Died 5, 1880 

Ann _ Vandiver 

John Harris 

Elizabeth Harris 

Mrs. Dobson Reese 

Maria Anderson 

Eliza Pickens Died 29 Der. 1860 

Horatio Reese Died 28 May, 1830 

Mrs. H. Reese 

Crosby W. Miller Died 1840 

Elizabeth Millar 

Mary Miller 

Elizabeth Miller 

Nancy Millar 

Mary Cherry Died 3d Augst, 1875 

Anna Hunter Died 1863 

Josias D. Gaillard Moved 

Anna Gaillard moved 

Jane Boggs 

Wm. Hamilton moved 

Marth Hamilton moved 

Cornelius P. DuPre’ 

Mary DuPre’ 

Rebecca Dickson 

Sarah Dickson 

Jane Elliott 

Charles Gaillard 

Sarah D. Gaillard 

Margery Hubbard (Mrs) 

Dr. E. Smith and Lady 

Mrs. Eliza North (by letter) 

Eliza & Theodore Gaillard 

Mrs. Terrell by letter. 

Saturday May 2, 1830 the fol- 
lowing persons were received. 
Thomas S. Reese 
Malinda Grisham Bapt 
Ann M. Gaillard 
Elizabeth R. Gaillard 
Rhoda servant of Mrs. 

Baptised 
Lucy Reese by letter 
John servant of Dr. Gibbes Pap- 

tised. 

Aug. 1, 1831 

Nancy Lorton 

Mira Lewis by letter 

Tony & Ned servants of C. C. 

Pinckney 
Oct. 15, 1831 
Leroy Gaston 
Hugh Gaston 
Wm. Miller 


4—O. S. C. 


Lorton 


Wm. Kennuff 

Serena Kenuff Baptised 

Sarah Hunter 

Elizabeth Steele 

Eliza McElroy Baptised 

Ann Millar Baptised 

Charlotte Johnson 

Elizabeth Miller 

Jane Miller sen. 

Jane Miller Jr. 

Mary Hunter Sen. 

Susan Bertrand 

Mrs. Archer Baptised 

(Crosby W. Miller Junr Dismissed 
by letter) 

Catherin Goodlett Baptised of 
Greenville. 

Mahala Hubbard Baptised 

Darky Bishop 2 

Margarett Allmus Baptised 

Nathaniel Harris 

Jack Baptised servant of Mrs. 
Steele 

Drilla servant of Col. Grisham 

Cela, Baptised servant of George 
Miller 

Sam, Mary & Harriet all Bap- 
tised servants of Mr. Story 

Mary Baptised servant of Dr. 


Symmes. 

Archibald McElroy & his Lady by 
letter. 

John E. C. Harris Jany 1832 

Charlotte Miller March 25, 1832 
March 18, 1832 

Abram, servant of G. Reese Bap- 
tised 

Friday do do Baptised 

Lewis servant Mr. Lawhon Bap 

Aga sert Mary Pickens Baptised 

Frederick ser’t C. Story Baptised 


Jackson do do _ Baptised 
Ned do do _ Baptised 
Billy do do Baptised 


March 25 1832 
Monday Story Baptised 
Anna S. Cherry Baptised 
Daniel Hamilton Baptised 
Dido DuPre’ Baptised 
Hannah Mrs. Reese Baptised 
Charlotte do do Baptised 
Yenor & Fanny Story Baptised 
Reported to Presbytery up to 
this time 
A. Foster 
August 12th. 1832 
Sam Geo Reese Jr. 
Alander G. Reese Jr. 
Harriet do do 


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Naro Mr. Story 


Sam C. Story, 
Delila do 

Lydia do 

Phebe do 

Daniel Miss Taliafero 
Lucy Mrs. Reese 


Mary Wm. Walker 

Molly Mrs. S. Hunter 

Ann Mrs. A Hunter 

Lydia servant of J. N. Boggs 

Harculus Thos. Pickens. 

Sarah Thos. Hamilton 

Cato Wm. Walker 

Bina Thos. Pickens 

Dinah Mrs. Reese 

Reported to Erebuieey up to 

Cc. W. 


this time. Minter. 
Nov. 2d. 1832 

June the servant of D. Cherry 
Baptised. 


August 12th. 1832 the following 
persons were rec’d into the church 
Jane M. Gaston 
Narcissa Gaston 
Charlotte Gaston 


Sarah Gaillard 

Jane E. Liddell 

Anne M. Hallums 

Margret Anderson 

Sarah A. Watson 

Jane E. Boudin 

James G. Boudin 

Mary Lewis, Mrs. Died 3 March 

1884 
Maria Watson 
And. P. Harris 
Ezekiel Harris 
Mrs. Esther Benson 
Mrs. Cynthia Adams 
Mary Hammett 
Ezekiel George 
J. O. Lewis 

Reported to Presb to this time 
by C. W. Miller. 

Nov. 2d. 1832 the following Per- 
sons was baptized and admitted 
to the Hopewell church 
Enoch B. Benson 
Thomas Hallums 
Warren W. Knight 
Noah Archer. 


Minutes of the Session of Hopewell Congregation, Keowee 
Pendleton Village. 


1832. On the 4 Sab. in November, The Revd Richard B. 
Cater, who was duly elected the Pastor of this Church, com- 


menced his labours in this congregation. 


On the Friday 


night following Mrs. Wm. Miller was baptized. 

1 Sab. December. Wm. Miller a member of the Church 
had his children baptized in number 6 children. 

12 December. Baptized for Thomas Pickens his little 


Daughter 1. 


3 Sabbath In December. James Clanahan was before the 


Session to-day as a candidate for communion; and was par- 
ticularly examined by the Session, and was Received. The 
Session this day entered in the following resolutions. 

1st. Resolved that the ordinance of Baptism shall never 
again be administered in private, unless parents are prevented 
by sickness or some unavoidable circumstances from bring- 
ing their children to the Church. 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 45 


2 Resolved, That the members of this Session will meet 
every Sabbath at 11 o’clock for the purpose of prayer & con- 
versing with any, who may be anxious upon the subject of 
Religion, or may wish to connect themselves with the 
Church, at the next Communion. 

3. Resolved that the Session will remain at the Church 
every Sabbath after divine Service, in order to examine the 
coloured people, who have been received into communion, 
and give them farther Instruction upon the plan of Salvation 
by the cross of Christ. 

4 Sab in December. The Session met according to ad- 
journment and after prayer to God, for his presence, con- 
versed with the following Individuals, who presented them- 
selves as candidates for the next communion. Viz. Mrs. 
Samuel Cherry. After sermon conversed with Miss Mary 
Hunter & Miss Ann Hunter. The Session then entered 
upon the regular business of conversing with the coloured 
communicants. Eight of whom having been previously 
cited to appear before the Session. 

The Session taking into consideration the number of col- 
oured communicants in this church, deemed it expedient to 
chuse from among them, two individuals who should superin- 
tend the Spiritual walk and conversation of this Class of 
communicants, and report accordingly to the Session. It 
was allowed the coloured members the privilege of electing 
their officers, when upon counting the votes, It appeared to 
the satisfaction of the Session, that Richard, Servant of Dr. 
Dart and Sam, Servant of Mr. Charles Story, were duly 
elected. 

5 Sabbath in Dec. The Session met according to adjourn- 
ment in the male Academy, constituted with prayer. The 
following persons offered themselves as candidates for com- 
munion, and after relating the religious exercises of their 
minds, were received. Miss Sarah Ann Lewis, Miss Man- 
danah Hunter, Mrs. Mary Anderson, Mr. John Miller, Mr. 
Robert Anderson Jun., Mr. John Haden. After service to- 


46 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


day, The Session met, and conversed with and received Ann 
Anderson (now Mrs. Harris) into the church. Also con- 
versed with the coloured people, who were cited to meet the 
Session and with the anxious. 

1 Sab. Jan. 1833. The Session met this morning and was 
constituted with prayer. The following persons offered 
themselves as candidates for communion at the next Sacra- 
ment and were examined and received, Viz. Miss Susan 
Reese, Madison Ferrel, Wm. Jenkins, Thompson Miller, Col. 
Robert Anderson. After Service in the Church, the Session 
met, when the following candidates for communion were 
examined and received Viz. Miss Caroline Taliaferro, Edwin 
Reese, Samuel S. Cherry, Andrew P. Cater, Joshua Lewis 
Belot and Miss Louisa C. Belot. 

Mr. Leroy Gaston, through his Father, applied for dis- 
mission from this Church, having gone to Virgia; & was 
accordingly dismissed. Also Mr. George Miller and wife 
obtained dismission having removed to Georgia. 

2 Sabbath Jan. The Session met and was opened with 
prayer. After Service in the Church, the Session remained 
and conversed with the anxious, and endeavoured to instruct 
the colored communicants, who had been previously re- 
quested to meet the Session. 

Saturday before the 8 Sab—This being the day previous 
to the Sacrament the Session met and was opened with 
prayer. 

3 Sab the Session met and after prayer, conversed with 
the following Individuals as candidates for communion at 
the present occasion Viz. John E. Harris, James Hunter, 
Mrs. Elizabeth Cherry, Elijah Anderson Belot. 

Mr. Thos. G. Anderson having presented a regular cer- 
tificate from the Church in Columbia of his good standing, 
& having been dismissed to join this Church, was received. 
The following Servants having been for some time under 
the notice & Instruction of the Session were Received into 
Communion. Viz. Andrew, Servant of David Cherry, Rose, 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 47 


Servant of Mrs. Gilliard, Mary Servant of Mrs. Gillard, 
William Servant of Warren Davis—Simon Servant of Mrs. 
Hall—Kate Mr. C. C. Pinckney, Andrew, Servant of Mr. 
Shanklin. 

Regular list of the persons received at the Communion 
on the 8 Sab. Jan. 1833— 


1 Mrs. Wm. Miller Baptized 15 Mr. Wm. Jenkins 
2 Mr. James Clanahan & was’ 16 Mr. Thompson Miller 
baptised 17 Col. Robert Anderson 
3 Mrs. Samuel Cherry 18 Miss Caroline Taliaferro 
4 Miss Mary Hunter & was Bap- 19 Mr. Edwin Reese 
tized 20 Mr. Samuel S. Cherry & was 
5 Miss Ann Hunter & was Bap- baptized 
tized 21 Mr. Andrew P. Cater 
6 Miss Sarah Ann Lewis 22 Mr. Joshua Belot 
7 Miss Mandanah Hunter 23 Miss Louisa C Belot 
8 Mrs Mary Anderson 24 Mr. John E. Harris & was 
9 Mr. John Miller baptized 
10 Mr. Robert Anderson 25 Mr. James Hunter & was bap- 
11 Mr. John Haden tized 
12 Miss Ann Anderson now Mrs 26 Mrs. Elizabeth Cherry 
Harris 27 Mr. Elijah Anderson Belot 
13 Miss Susan Reese 28 Mr. Thos G. Anderson upon 
14 Mr. Madison Ferrel & was certificate. 
baptized 
Servants 
1 Andrew—Belonging to D. Cherry Bab. 
2 TEC ee nee Mrs. Gilliard Bab. 
Sh AEN Re eee ge Mrs. Gilliard Bab. 
4 Wallace—Hon. W. Davis Bab. 
5 Simon—Mrs. Hall Bab. 
6 Kate—Mr. C. C. Pinckney Bab. 
7 Andrew—Mr. Shanklin—all of whom were baptized. 


Total received at this communion. .34 upon profession 
1 certificate 


Adults Baptized...... 14 


Charles Miller applied for baptism for his Son, Thos. 
Hamilton which was granted— 

4 Sab. Jan. The Session met & was constituted with 
prayer. After Services by Mr. Rankin, a Lutheran, the 


48 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


Session met and conversed with the Servants Requested to 
meet ; & with some who were anxious— 

Thompson Miller applied for dismission for himself and 
wife Lucinda to join the Church at Upper Long Cane, which 
was accordingly granted by order of Session. 

5th Feb. The congregation met, according to previous 
appointment, for the purpose of electing Ruling Elders. It 
was stated by the Pastor of the Church and by one of the 
members of the present Session; that It was necessary that 
at least four Ruling Elders were needed. The congregation 
went into the election; when upon counting the votes; It 
appeared that Col. Robert Anderson, Thomas S. Reese, 
Elam Sharpe & E. B. Benson were duly elected. The 
Brethren chosen, were requested to take the subject under 
consideration, and in due time signify their acceptance or 
non-acceptance of the appointment. 

20 Feb. Upon application, Crosby W. Miller was dis- 
missed to join any Presbyterian Church in Alabama, in the 
bounds of which his lot might be cast. To which State, he 
was about to remove. 

Record of the Pendleton Hopewell Church, Aprile 26th. 
1833. Friday evening By the grace of God the Congrega- 
tion Convened in the Church for publick worship in pre- 
paration for the Communion on Sabeth. The Revd. R. B. 
Cator peached on the subject of 

Aprile 27th. Congregation met at 11 o’clock, when the 
Revd. Haslett preached from ist Peter 2d-3d and Revd. 
Cator in the afternoon from Zacheriah. Revd. Haslett 
again at night from Isaiah 57th. 15th. 

Aprile 28th. Met at half past 9 Oclock for prayer. The 
Revd. Haslett comenced preaching at 11 Oclock from 
Isaiah 16th-20th. After Communion The Revd. Cator 
gave an animated Exortation. Luna a servant of Gov. 
Hammiltons having presented a Regular Certificate from 
the Church in Charleston of her good standing was received. 

The Revd. Cator Closed the exercise of the day by 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 49 


preaching from Isaah Ch. 53-11th. Latter claus ——By his 
knowledge shall my righteous servant Justify many, for he 
shall bear their iniquities. 

July 12th. 1833. Mrs. Susan McDaniel having applyed 
for dismission from Hopewell Congregation through C. W. 
Miller, it was granted. She having been a nonresidenter 
member.— 

4th Sabath in Aprile or 28th. 1833. 

Persons admitted to the Communion at this Sacrament. 

Whites. 
1 Mr. William Carter 
2 Mrs. Sarah Clanehan 
Blacks. 


1 Judy. Servant of Gov. Hammilton Bab. 


2) SE Gibbs Bab. 

4 James...... North. Bab. 

bases 2s. Dor Gibbs Bab. Certificate of Character. 
6 Betsey...) >. North Bab. 

f Abra...» Sanders Cirtificate. 

S Moses.:. . . . Pinkney Bab. 

a Phillis: 2)... Mrs. Hunter. Bab. 

men Rese 262 5. John C. Calhoun Cirtificate from Church. 
my Pansiy Ss. 2: Steele Bab. 

ie Begs fs sk Hamilton Certificate. 

eat Etester. 200 x North. Bab. 

leet Gaston Bab. 


Coulered Members in the Hopewell Church June 20th. 
1833: 


1 Sam Story Elder 11 Lewis Labon 

2 Richd Dart Elder 12 Aage Anderson 

3 John Gibbs 13 Frederick Story 

4 Toney Pinkney 14 Jackson Story 

5 Ned Pinkney 15 Ned Story 

6 Jack Steele 16 Billy Story 

7 Sam Story 17 Monday Story 

8 Mary Story 18 Annah Cherry Sen. 


9 Hariot Story 19 Daniel Hamilton. 
10 Mary Symms 20 Dido Dupree 


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Hannah Mrs. Reese 
Charlotte do 
Story 
Fanny Story 
Sam G. Reese 
G. Reese 
Hariot do 
Nero Story 
Sam Story 
Delia Story 
Julia Story 
Phebe Story 
Danl Miss Talfero 
Lucy Mrs. Reese 
Mary Walker 


} Molly Mrs. S. Hunter. 


Ann Mrs. A Hunter. 
Andrew D. Cherry. 
Rose Mrs. Gaillard 
Mary Mrs. Gaillard 
Wallace Davise 
Simon Mrs. Hall 
Kate C. C. Pinkney 
Andrew Shanklin 
Judy Gov. Hamilton 


Amy D. Cherry 
Sarah Gibbs 

James North 
Patsey Doc Gibbs 
Betsey North 
Abraham Saunders 
Moses Pinkney 
Phillis Mrs. Hunter 
Rose J. C. Calhoun 
Fanny Steele 

Lucy Hammilton 
Hester North 

Ann Gaston 

Viney Mrs. Hunter 


Dooglas. Capt. Good (July 
6th) 

Julietta G. Reese 
Hanah 

Andy T. Sloan 

Betty D. Cherry 
Sophia Doc Dart 
Serena Revd Ross. 
Eli Gibbs 

Sippio J. North 
Stuart. Genl Whitner. 


White members of the Hopewell Congregation the 20th. 
June 1833 


D Or & 


A 


Anderson Robt & Lady Senr. 
Anderson Robt & Lady Junr. 
Anderson Thos. 
Adams Cynthia 


B 


Benson B. E. & lady 

Boggs J. N. & lady 

Bertrand Susan 

Belotte & lady 

Belotte Joshua 

Belotte A. E. 

Belotte Lewiza 

Bishop Nicholas & lady. 

Bishop Jane Died 11th Feb., 
1881. Dr. Adger preached 
funeral. 

Bishop Darky 


Cc 


Cator Mrs. 

Cator Andrew 

Carter Wm. & lady 

Clanehan James & lady 

Cherry Susan Died 10th Feb., 
1847. 

Cherry Elizabeth 


29 Cherry S. Saml. 


30 Cherry Mary 


Died 3d Aug., 
1876. 

Camanard Polly 

Carns Senr. 

Crocker Lemuel (gone) 


D 


Dupree Mary 
Dupre Martha 
Dupre Susan 


37 Dupre C. P. & lady 


38 


39 
40 


42 


E 
Eliott Jane. 
F 


Ferril Mrs. 
Ferril Madison 


G 
Gaillard dead Charles & lady 


43 Gaillard Rebecka. 
44 Gaillard Ann 

45 Gaillard Sarah 

47 Gaston Wm. & lady. 


Gaston Hugh Dismissed. 
H 


48 Hubert Margery 
49 Hunter Sarah 


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50 Hunter Anna P 

51 Hunter Mary Senr 85 Pickins Mrs. Thos. 

52 Hunter Mandanah 86 Pickins Eliza 

53 Hunter Ethilinda 

54 Hunter Mary Junr. R 

55 Hunter Ann 88 Reese George & Lady Senr. 
57 Harris John & lady 89 Reese Mrs. George. 

59 Harris Ezekiel & Lady 91 Reese T. Sidney & Lady. 
60 Harris Eliza 92 Reese Mrs. Dor. 

61 Harris Ann 93 Reese Edwin 

62 Haden John 94 Reese Rebeccah 


63 Hunter Sarah (Wolf Creek) 95 Reese Margret 
J 96 Reese Susan 


64 Jenkins Susan Ss 


ee a 98 Story Charles & Lady Mr. 
67 Kunuff Wm. & lady St Head J 99d. 1835 
Knight W. Warren dismised. ei Py sania eae caad 
Mrs. S. dismised. 


L 100 Sharp Elam & Lady 
68 Lewis Mariah ie oe ae abeth 
69 Lewis Sarah Ann teele Mary ; 
Symm Sarah Died Jan. 1847 
op SiR 103 Steel Elizabeth 
71 Lorton Nancy ; 


72 Ledbetter Sarah. 104 Steele Nancy. 
M T 

74 Miller Crosby & lady 105 Telefero Carolina 
75 Miller Elizabeth 
76 Miller Jane Senr. U. V. 
77 Miller Jane Junr. 
78 Miller Ann Ww 
79 Miller Charlotte 107 Walker William & Lady 
81 Miller Jos & Lady 108 Walker Eliza 
82 Miller John 109 Walker Matilda 
84 McElroy Arch. & Lady 110 Walker Narcissus 

McElroy Eliza Dead. 111 Whitner Mrs. 


RECORD OF THE PENDLETON HOPEWELL CHURCH JULY 
26TH. 1833 


July 26th. 1833. Friday evening The Church conveaned 
to hear the word preached in preperation for the sacred 
Communion on the ensuing Sabath. The Revd. Cator 
Lectured on the enfluences of the Mistical Union with 
Christ on the Christian Character. 

27th. This morning convened for prayer at sun rise 
the meeting was conducted by the Revd. R. B. Cator. After 
ten Oclock Revd. Ross preached from 

After five Oclock Revd. Cator preached from 

28th. Sabbath. Met for prayer at 9 Oclock when E. 


52 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


Sharpe was directed to conduct the meeting. At 11 Oclock 
preaching commenced by the Revd. Cator after a short 
intermishion a number of the bretheren from Carmel joined 
us in commemorating the death & sufferings of our 
redeemer—the service was closed by an animated & Argu- 
mentative discourse on the general judgernent. At candle 
light again met & Revd. Ross again preached when the 
meeting was finally closed. 
Members admited July 26th. 1833 
Whites. Blacks. 

1 Dooglas—Capt. Good. 

2 Julietta—G. Reese 

3 Hanah—Pinkney 

Baptised 

Andy—T. Sloan 
Betty—D. Cherry 
Sophie—Dart 
Serena—Revd. Ross 
Eli—Gibs 
Sippio—North. 


MOF SD oP 


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RECORD OF THE PENDLETON HopEWELL CHURCH SEPT. 
19TH. 1833. 


_Sepr. 19th. 1833. This day comences the Camp Meeting. 
At the place agreed on by a joint Committee of Carmel & 
Hopewell Churches & denominated the Union Camp ground. 

The Revd. James Dupre preached at candle light. 

Sepr. 20th. The Revd. Carlisle preached this morning. 

The Revd. Wm. McCall a Methodist brother at 11 Oclock 
Revd. A. Ross in continuation Revd. Mullinax at 4 Oclock 
& at Candle light Revd. R. B. Cator preached & closed by 
exhortation to about 12 anxious souls. 

Sepr. 21st. Prayers at Sunrise. At 8 Oclock the followers 
of the Lord asembled to intreat almighty god to visit us by 
his holy spirit. At 10 Oclock preaching commenced by 
Revd. Carlisle after 25 minutes intermishon. 


THE OLD STONE, CHURCH 53 


Revd. Doc Palmer preached from the Text—‘‘What wilt 
thou have me to do lord’’—Revd. McColl followed. After 
dinner Revd. Humphries discoursed & showed very clearly 
that “we are not our own’’—Revd. Cator preached at Candle 
light & invited to the anxious seat when about 25 or 30 took 
the side of the lord & the service of the day closed by prayer 
at each Corner of the Camp. 

Sepr. 22. Sabbath—Prayer at sunrise conducted by Revd. 
Ross. At 10 Oclock sermon delivered by Revd. Ross Doc. 
Palmer in Continuation.—Invitation and explanation by 
Revd. R. B. Cator.—After intermission about 250 of various 
denominations commemorated the dying love of our Saviour. 
At Candle Light Revd. Humphries discoursed. Revd. Cator 
then exhorted to take the anxious seat when between 30 and 
100 gave testimony of a desire for their souls salvation. 

Sepr. 23d. Monday—Prayer at sunrise & again at 8 Oclock 
by Christians & anxious—At 10 Oclock Young Mr. Harris 
discoursed from the Words “God is a conssuming fire to all 
who are out of Christ.” A short intermission and preaching 
commenced again by Doc. Palmer. At 4 Oclock Revd. 
preached & at Candle Light. By. Revd. Humphries. Sepr. 
24th Concluding prayer at Sunrise. 


Members admitted August 22, 1833 


Whites Blacks. 
Mrs. Sarah Hunter (of Woolf Creek) 
Mr. Carns. 
Members admitted Nov. 1833 
Whites Blacks. 
Lemuel Crocker Baptised Stuart Whitner. 


RECORD OF PENDLETON HoPEWELL CHURCH. 
Decem. 13th. 1833 Mrs. A. Hunters serveant Viney hav- 
ing applyed for dismission it was therefore granted with & 
approving certificate. 


54 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


Decem. 1833 Miss Betsey or Elizabeth Steele was mar- 
ried to Eligah Alexander. 

Jan 1834 Mrs. Hugh Gaston Junr. was regularly dis- 
missed from our Church with a recommendatory cirtificate 
from the pastor (Revd. R. B. Cator.) 

Jan. 18th. 1834 Mr. William W. Knight having applyed 
for dismission from our Church it was therefore granted. 

Jan. 19th. 1834 (Sabath) 

Session met according to adjournment present the pastor 
C. W. Miller E. B. Benson W. Walker Elam Sharpe. Su- 
jested by the pastor that we commence Sunday School in the 
Gallery of the church & that Robt. Anderson Junr. be re- 
quested Superintendant. Monthly Concert of prayer or- 
dered to be announced to the people from the pulpit & 
observed the 1st Monday of every month. Two Charity 
boxes proposed. 

This day Revd. Cator read a discourse addressed particu- 
larly to the professing members from Hebrews 3.-13th. “But 
exhort one another dayly.”’ At 3 Oclock Preached to the 
couloured people after which 21 took the anxious seats. 

Jan. 26th. 1834 Sabath. 

Session met according to ajournment present the Revd. R. 
B. Cator—C. W. Miller—E. B. Benson—& E. Sharpe & W 
Walker. The usial meetings aranged. 

In the evening met and examined Twelve Coulered people 
some were found to be much affected. 

Feb. 2d. 1834—(First Sabath) 

Session met according to ajournment. Present Revd. R. 
B. Cator, John Harris, C. Story, William Walker, C. W. 
Miller, E. B. Benson, T. S. Reese & Elam Sharpe. When it 
was agreed that the Communion Should be held on the 
Fourth Sundies of Feb., May, Aug. & November & that the 
sabath schools commence on the 16th. Inst. with R. Anderson 
Junr. Superintendant. 

John E. Harris & Benjm. Harris applied for dismission 
through Nathaniel Harris & Certificates were granted. We 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 55 


do nont find the names of the above on our list as recd. into 
this Church. 

Feb. 3d. 1834. (Concert Monday) 

Revd. R. B. Cator Preached a Missionary Sermon by ap- 
pointment of the Synod yesterday and a colection was made 
to-day for the Board of foreighn Missions when we counted 
from the Boxes $10.93 1-4. The Revd. Cator was solicited 
and consented to publish his excelent discourse. 

Feb. 9th. 1834 (Sabath 2d) 

Session met present R. B. Cator Moderator E. B. Benson 
Elam Sharpe C. W. Miller W: Walker, T. S. Reese. Tues- 
day lecture changed to 4 Oclock. Session ordered to meet 
one hour previous. Mr. Benson & Mr. Reese consent & is to 
be Ordained on next Sabath,— 

Feb. 16th. 1834 (Sabath 3d) 

Session met according to ajournment. Present Revd. 
Moderator W. Walker C. W. Miller C. Story E. B. Benson 
T. S. Reese Elam Sharpe & J. Harris When the maner of 
Ordination was aranged. After an Eloquent and impressive 
discourse from Acts 20th. 17th. “And called the Elders of 
the Church.” E,. B. Benson and T. S. Reese were Ordained 
with great solemnity by laying on of the hands of the Session. 

Andy, servant of J. C. Shanklin was brought before the 
Session on a charge of Assault and Battery on the Sabath & 
he proved that another person commited the act therefore 
was acquited on that charge but was found guilty of several 
acts unbecoming the Christian Character & was suspended 
from Church privileges till the appearance of a sorowful re- 
pentance And C. W. Miller was appointed to report the sent- 
ance & give it weight by serious exhortation. Sabath school 
well attended. 

Feb. 21st. 1834 (Friday Communion Season) 

This day commenced the communion season & The Session 
met present Moderator, J. Harris C. Story W. Walker C. W. 
Miller E. B. Benson & E Sharpe—Sar. Harris & C. W. Mil- 
ler appointed to confer with William Kanuff & report to ses- 


56 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


sion & C. W. Miller & E. B. Benson are also a Com. to advise 
with Jn. Boggs on a difference with E. Sharpe. Prayer 
meeting at candle light. 

Feb. 22d. 1834 (Saturday Communion Season) 

Session conveaned, present Moderator, John Harris, C. 
Story W. Walker C. W. Miller E. B. Benson T. S. Reese & 
FE. Sharpe. Hanah, servant of D. Cherry examined for com- 
munion but suspended till next season. 1st. Table will be 
served by W. Walker, C. W. Miller & T. S. Reese & the 2d. 
Table will be served by C. Story E. B. Benson & Elam 
Sharpe. prayer meeting to night. 

Feb. 23d. 1834 (Sabath Communion—4th) 

Session met present Moderator C. Story W. Walker C. 
W. Miller & T. S. Reese —Stuart, a servant of Genl. Whit- 
ner was examined & Recd into the Church. —Near 200 
Communicants sat down to the Table of the Lord in great 
order and solemnity. 

March 2d (Sabath 1st) 

In session Moderator J. Harris W. Walker C. W. Mil- 
ler E. B. Benson T. S. Reese E. Sharpe When Mr. Walker 
& C. Miller were appointed to confer with William Gaston 
on the subject of his intemperance & to invite him before 
the session. 

After sermon Mr. Gaston appeared & having been 
informed of the report relating to his frequent intoxication 
He promptly denyed that he had been sensible of having 
drank to much. Session not being full decission was post- 
poned. 


Births. Names of persons Baptised. 
White members recd and Baptised from last of November 
1832 till last of March 1834. 


32 Members Received 
1 By Certificate 

10 Adults Baptised 
10 Children Baptised 


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8 Members Dismissed or removed 
111 Now on the List. 


Couloured members Recd. & Baptised From Nov. 1832 
till March 1834. 


29 Members Received 
2 By Certificate 
17 Members Baptised 


There has been many members moved without Certifi- 
cates. 
80 now supposed on the list. 
The above reported March 18th, 1834. 
March 8th. 1834 (Sabath 2nd) 


Present in Session Moderator John Harris, Charles 
Story C. W. Miller W. Walker E. B. Benson Thomas 
S. Reese & Elam Sharpe. When the following letter 
addressed to the session was read V.I.Z. To the Session 
of the presbeterian Church at Pendleton Village 
Gentlemen 

The object of this communication is to obtain a dismis- 
sion from your Church and attatch myself to the presby- 
terian Church in my immediate neighborhood. Perhaps 
before I applied this favour it was my duty to have appeared 
before the session & rendered satisfaction for some dificul- 
ties in which I have been involved since I attatched myself 
to the Church—I alude to the circumstance of Morrison 
and Gresham. I regret exceedingly that the difficulty did 
occur and more particularly on account of the injury which 
such things are likely to do the caus of Christ. I hope the Ses- 
sion will pardon whatever may appear amiss in my conduct 
in this instance; & rest satisfied that by the grace of god 
ennabling me I will endeavour for the future not only to 
steer clear of simmelar difficulties but to adorn the doctrins 
of the holy profession which I have made. 

9th. March 1834 J. OvERtTON LEwIs. 


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After reading the above it was required that the Mod- 
erator address a letter to Mr. Lewis on the subject of its 
contents. 

W. Gaston case came before the Session & it was deter- 
mined to suspend him till he gives evidence of a sorowfull 
Repentance. 

It being sujested that a member was addicted to intem- 
perance Squire Harris & Mr. Benson was appointed a 
Committee to enquire into her Character & procure testi- 
mony. 

March 16th. 1834 Sabath 3d. 

Present Moderator J. Harris C. Story W. Walker C. 
W. Miller E. B. Benson T. S. Reese Elam Sharpe. 

J. Harris & E. B. Benson reported favourable of a mem- 
ber. 

March 28d. 1834 (Sabath 4th.) 

Session met accoding to ajournment. Present Moderator 
J. Harris C. Story W. Walker C. W. Miller S. Reese 
E.. B. Benson & E. Sharpe Examined the couloured people 
who are anxious. Some late ones found to be very ignor- 
ant. 

Sunday school increasing. 

March 30th. 1834 (Sabath 5) 

Met according to ajournment. Present Moderator 
Charles Story, W. Walker, C. W. Miller, J. Harris, E. B. 
Benson, T. S. Reese & E Sharpe After sermon C. Story 
exhorted the couloured people &c. 

Aprile 6th. 1834 (Sabath 1) 

The Revd. Cator absent. A few of the members with 
three elders met C. W. Miller appointed Moderator. A 
chapter was read & hymns sung when a sermon was read 
by E. Sharpe concluded by prayer and exhortation to 
negroes. 

April 13th. 1834 (2 Sabath) 

Day bad. No business done. 

Aprile 20th. 1834 (3d. Sabath) 


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A full session but nothing matereal before them. An 
increasing Sunday school. 

Aprile 27th 1834 (4th Sabath) 

No service. Raining incesantly 

May 4th. 1834 (1 Sabath) 

A full Session But nothing done more than instruct the 
coulered people School increasing. 

May 11th. 1834 2d Sabath. 

Present Moderator C. Story C. W. Miller E. B. Benson 
Thos. S. Reese E. Sharpe When 16 coulered people were 
examined on their faith in Christ & fitness for membership 
8 were received on condition they obtain Certificates of 
_ good Character from their masters & 8 are'to wait for fur- 
ther instructions.——Friday appointed a fast day. A full 
Sunday school. 

May 16th. 1834 (Friday fast day) 

Session met and made some ordinary arangements. 2 
Sermons one at noon the other at Candle light. 

May 17th. 1834 (Saturday) 

Present Moderator C. Story W. Walker C. W. Miller 
E. B. Benson T. S. Reese & Elam Sharpe. 

On this day the Revd Ross preached at 11 Oclock. Revd 
‘Cator followed. Revd. Ross again at night. Tokens dis- 
tributed to Communicants. 

May 12th. 1834 (Sabath 3d.) 

This day is our Communion While Revd. Cator & the 
Session are conducting the ordinary buisiness in the Room 
E. Sharpe was appointed to cary on worship in the Church 
assisted by Thos Boggs. 

The following persons were Baptised & Recd. into the 
fellowship & Communion of the Church (all coulered.) 


1 Edmund—Ferrell Bap. 
2 Nelly— Do. Bap. 
3 Hanah—D. Cherry Bap. 
4 Lucinda— Bap. 


5 Dinah—Mrs. Pickins Bap. 
5—O. S. C. 


60 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


6 Milly—G. Reese Bap. 
7 Henrietta—G. Reese Bap. 
8 Suckey— Bap. 
9 Brutis—J. North Bap. 
10 Lott—Esqr Harris Bap. 
11 Jerry—R. Anderson Bap. 
12 Peggy—Bee By Certificate. 


John Harris T. S. Reese & E. B. Benson appointed to 
serve the 1st Table—C. Story W. Walker & E. Sharpe the 
2d.—C. W. Miller T. Boggs & Col. Hamilton the 3 C. 
Story & C. W. Miller will distribute Tokens to Blacks. 

May 25th. 1834 (4th. Sabath) 

No Publick worship. The Pastor at Greenville and the 
day Rainy. 

June 1st. 1834 (1st. Sabath) 

No service. 

June 8th. 1834 (Sabath 2d.) 

Present Moderator John Harris C. Story W. Walker 
C. W. Miller E. B: Benson, T. S. Reese & E. Sharpe. The 
Revd. Fosters letter Claiming a ballance due him for three 
years preaching was considered & the Colector ordered to 
Collect what he could & forward the same according to 
directions. 

Met in the evening to converse with the black people. 

Sunday school still prosperous. 

June 15th. 1834 (Sabath 3d.) 

Present Moderator J. Harris C. Story W. Walker C. W. 
Miller E. B. Benson T. S. Reese & E.. Sharpe. 

After service examined and instructed about twenty 
coulered people who are on the anxious class. 

Joseph Millers Child Baptised. 

June 22d. 1834 (Sabath 4) 

Met according to adjournment. Present Moderator J. 
Harris W. Walker C. Story C. W. Miller T. S. Reese & 
Elam Sharpe. 

The Clerk of the Session hereby acknowledges the receipt 


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of 20 coppies of Minutes of the Presbetery of So. Carolina 
Spring Session 1834 Which minutes he is ordered to sell at 
6 1-4c. each for to cover the expense of printing. 

Sold 11 Coppies of Minutes @ 6 1-2 $00.68 3-4. 

June 29th. 1834 (5th Sabath.) 

Met according to adjournment. Present John Harris 
C. Story C. W. Miller E. Sharpe. No Buisiness before the 
session. Revd. Cator absent & his place supplied by Rev. 
Canidy. 

Sold 9 Coppies of Minuets being all on hand. 


Names of those who have taken Minuets 


Wm. Walker 1 Coppy Paid. 
E. Sharpe Wo.) ? Raid: 
Col. Anderson Do... Paid: 
Thos. Hammilton Da. , Paid 
C. W. Miller Dov) Paid 
Mrs. Symms 
Mrs. McDow 
Mrs. Steele 


i) 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Mrs. Ann Hunter i. We: Paid 
Mrs. Miller Ls Be! 
Wm. Gaston 1 Do Paid 
E. B. Benson ee (Be. 3) (Paid 
Robt. Anderson Junr 1 Do. Paid 
Sam’l S. Cherry 1. Do. . Paid 
Madison Ferril ft) Das i Paid 
Thos. S. Reese tT Do.) Paid 
George Reese Senr PE Bas. Patd 
Edwin Reese To Daa. Eand. 
Doc. M. Reese Last Pad 
Charles Story £5.) Paid: 
20 
John Harris 1 Coppy Paid. 
Martha Dupree ih Sh: 


Mrs. Pickins tirDo! 


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Mrs. Rees (Widow) 1 Do. 
Mrs. Sarah Hunter 1” ‘Do.’ Pam 
Mrs. D. Cherry SEAN a ron 
Mrs. Adams 1. Do; Pat 
Ezekeal Harris Paid 1 Do. Paid. 
28 
Mrs. Starks 1 
John Miller 1 
30 


32 Coppies have been received. 

July 6th. 1834 (Sabath ist.) 

Session met as usual. Present Moderator John Harris 
C. Story, W. Walker C. W. Miller T. S. Reese & E. Sharpe 
When it was moved and determined that a subscription 
paper be put in the hands of each member of the session in 
the following words V.I.Z. 

(We whose names are underwritten promise to pay to 
Elam Sharpe Clerk of the Session of Hopewell Congrega- 
tion or his successor in office the sums anexed to our names 
to be sent to the Presbetery of South Carolina at their 
Spring session for the benefit of domestic Missions within 
the bounds of said Presbytery & for the education of Indi- 
gint young men whose views are to the Ministry 6th. July 
1834) & to which subscription paper each member is re- 
quired to obtain all the subscriptions he can within the 
bounds of each. 

The Clerk acknowledges the receipt of twelve more copies 
of Minuts of last Presbetery. 

July 13th. 1834 (Sabath 2d.) 

As usuil session Mett present Moderator, C. Story, W. 
Walker C. W. Miller T. S. Reese J. Harris & E. Sharpe 
When a subscription paper was furnished by the Clerk to 
J. Harris C. Story W. Walker C. W. Miller & the Clerk 
kept one himself. 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 63 


The session then proceeded to the consideration of a let- 
ter recd. from the Church in Greenville requesting us to 
assist them by granting the ministereal labours of the Revd. 
Richard B. Cator every fourth Sabath. After obtaining 
the consent of Revd. Cator it was the unanimous oppinion 
of the session that we ought to give some assistance to this 
young Church & was ordered that the Clerk address a let- 
ter to Doc. Williams their Agent stating that ourselves and 
pastor have consented to their wishes but that the whole 
matter has to be laid before the church as a Corporate body 
for their approoval which body is to meet on the day 
in September but also to say that the Revd. Cator will 
preach to them on the 5 Sabath in August. 

July 20th. 1834 (Sabath 3d.) 

Met according to adjournment. Present Moderator J. 
Harris, C. Story W. Walker, C. W. Miller E. B. Benson 
T. S. Rese & E. Sharpe. When the subject of reform was 
taken up & some important maters discussed in an informal 
manner. 

July 25th. 1834 (Friday) 

Full Session. When some matters were ajusted between 
members. 


July 27th. 1834. (Sabath 4th.) 

Session met when some informal maters were discussed. 
Augt. 3d. 1834. (1st. Sabath.) 

Pastor Absent, & no meeting. 

Augt. 10th. 1834 (2d. Sabath.) 


Session met Present E. B. Benson William Walker E. 
Sharpe J. Harris & T. S. Reese. On motion of E. Sharpe 
John Harris was called to the Chair. When the clerk was 
ordered to read a Communication from our Pastor stating 
Four Reasons why he declined acting as moderator in a 
Controversy now pending in the Session & beging to be 
excused. The reasons were thought sufficient & the ses- 
sion directed the Clerk to speak to the Revd. Humphries to 


64 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


act as chairman or Moderator on Friday 22 Inst. when all 
parties will be heard. 


Augt. 17th. 1834 (3d Sabath) 


Communion at Union Camp ground where the Congre- 
gation was large. 

On Monday 18th. Four persons was recd. into the Church 
& Session met in the Clergy house to effect a comprimise 
between two of the brethren in which we failed. Revd. 
Humphries Moderator & present W. Walker C. W. Miller 
E.. B. Benson & E. Sharpe & T. S. Reese. 

Names of persons received into Hopewell Church at the 
Union Camp meeting on the 18th. of Augt. 

Melinda Mc.Dow. 

Augt. 24th. 1834 (4th. Sabath) 

Session met present John Harris Moderator William 
Walker E. B. Benson 

Augt. 31st. 1834 (5th. Sabath) 


This day the Rev. Dupree was to preach in Revd. Cators 
place who was gone to Greenville to fill an appointment 
made to that young & promising Church. The day so rainy 
that there has been no meeting. 

Novr. 2d. 1834 (1 Sabath) 


Present Revd. R. B. Cator Moderator John Harris C. 
W. Miller W. Walker E. B. Benson & E. Sharpe. When on 
motion of C. W. Miller it was resolved that the following 
shall be the order in which the members of Session shall 
furnish the Symbles of our Savour & that both the Bread 
& Wine be furnished by the same person. 

1st. John Harris X 
2d C. W. Miller X 


C. Story : Ezekeal Harris’s 
W. Walker X : Child Baptised. 
E. Sharpe X : 


T. S. Reese X 
E. B. Benson X 


“2 S> Ot H CO 


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Resolved that on next Sabath the Elements be furnished 
by C. Story whose turn comes next. 

Novr. 7th. 1834 (Friday fast) 

Present Moderator J. Harris E. Benson W. Walker C. 
W. Miller E. Sharpe. When Mrs. Charles Story & Mrs. 
Milton Reese applyed for dismission & the Clerk was order 
to grant Certificates. 

Novr. 8th. 1834 (Saturday) 

Present Revd. Moderator W. Walker C. Miller & E. 
Sharpe When Miss Clanihan was examined and re- 
ceived into the Church.—After Sermon J. Harris C. Miller 
& Elam Sharpe with Moderator When Molly Mc Creary 
was examined & received into the Church. 


Recd. into the Church : Elizabeth Clanihan 
Miss Elizabeth Clanihan : Baptised. 
Mrs. Molly McCreary 


November 9th. 1834 (Sabath 2d) 


Session met according to adjournment Present Moder- 
ator J. Harris W. Walker C. W. Miller E. B. Benson E. 
Sharpe When arrangements were made for the sacrement 
of the Lords Supper. 


Revd. Mr. Cator being in low health He was assisted by 
the Rev. A. Ross & Revd. Kennedy—The service was con- 
ducted with great seriousness & solemnity. All appeared 
to take a deep interest in the transactions of the day. 

Nov. 16th. 1834 (Sabath 3d) 

The day cold and gloomy. Prayer and exhortation by 
E. Cator with a few Christian friends in Church. 

Noy. 23d. 1834 (Sabath 4th) 

No session But a good meeting of the people & attentive 
and sollum under the preaching of the word. 


Nov. 30th. 1834 (5 Sabath) 
No service to day Pastor gone to Abbeville. 
Decmr. 7th. 1834 (Sabath 1st) 


66 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


Session met. present Moderator C. W. Miller T. S. 
Reese & W. Walker When Lewis Servant of A. Lanhon 
applied to dismission & granted. 

Feb. 1st. 1835 (Sabath 1) 

No Session—Recd. from Mr. Cater 16 Minuest of the 
faul session of the Presbytery & disposed of the following 
number. 

To Col. Anderson 1 Coppy paid 
“ FE Harris 1 Do. paid 
“John Harris 2 Do paid 
“ W. Walker Do. paid 
© C. W: Miller) Do Paid 
mde Clanthan\ Do) Paid 
“—W. Gaston Do. paid 


“ Mrs. Syms Do : Recd. 16 Coppies 
“Mrs. A. Hunter Do Paid : Recd 12 & Paid for the 
Mins. Hertel) Do. ead : whole of them 


“Elam Sharpe Do paid 

“ Mrs. McDow Do 

“ Mrs. Starks Do. 
John Miller Do. 

“ FE. B. Benson Do. Paid 
“ Thos S. Reese Do. Paid 

Feb 21st. 1835 (Saturday) 

Present Revd. Cator Moderator, J. Harris, W. Walker, 
C. W. Miller, E. B. Benson, Thos. S. Reese & E. Sharpe. 
It was moved and resolved that prayer meeting commence 
to-morrow at 1-2 past 9 Oclock & that E Sharpe conduct 
that meeting & that all things be put in rediness for Com- 
munion. 

Feb. 22d. 1835 (Sabath) 

Met this morning. Present Revd. Cator Moderator & 
others. When Miss Martha C. Benson was examined & 
admitted With Tucker servant of G. Reese Safford servant 
of J. C. Miller Juda Do. Robt. Anderson Rosa Do. G. 
Reese. 


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Miss Martha C. Benson Baptized. 
Coulered people 
1 Tucker G. Reese : 
2 Sattord | J.C. Miller : Baptized. 
3 Rosa G. Reese ; 
4 Juda Robt. Anderson 


March 9th 1835 (Sabath 2) 

Session met present Moderator C. W. Miller Thos. S. 
Reese & Elam Sharpe. When the Clerk was ordered to 
Draw up another subscription paper for Domestic Missions 
& to obtain all the signitures he can. 

March 15th. 1835 (Sabath 3d) 

Session met. Present J. Harris C. W. Miller T. S. Reese 
& Elam Sharpe. When it was moved and resolved that E. 
_ Sharpe shall attend Presbetry with our Pastor Revd. Cator. 

March 22d. 1835 (Sabath 4) 

The Revd. Cator Preached at 3 Oclock to the coulered 
people—The Galleries were filled & they were very atten- 
tive—Elected two Elders V.I.Z James servant of J. North 
& Andrew servant of D. Cherry. 

Coulered members in Hopewell Church March 22d. 1835 


A D 
all Andrew Cherry Dido Dart 
2 Andrew Sloan Delila Story 
3 Amica Hunter Daniel Talefaro 
4 Aga Anderson Duglis Good 
Annah Cherry Dinah Mrs. Reese 
- Daphney Story 

: E 
my Story Edmund Ferrel 

Betsey North F 
Betsey Ds Cherry Pradeee Sieiyy 
Billy Bisshop Fanny Sti 
C Fanny Warley 


Cato Walker Floro Warley 


68 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


G 
H 
Hannah Reese G. 
Hester North 
Hannah Pinckney 
Herculous T. Pickens 
Hariot Story 
Hariot Reese, G. 
Henrietta Reese, G. 
LO fe 
Jack Griffin 
James North (Elder) 
Julietta Reese, G. 
Tsom Story 
Judy Anderson 
Jackson Story 
Jerry Pickens 
K 
Kate C. C. Pinckney 
L. 
Lidia Story 
Lott Harris 
Lucinda Cherry 
M. 
Mary Symms 
Monday Story 
Mary Walker 
Molly Hunter 
Mary Pickens 
Milly Reese G 
Mariah Watkins 


Ned 
Ned 
Nero 
Nelly 
Nelly 


Pheby 
Patsey 
Peggy 


Richard 
Rose 
Rupard 
Romeo 
Rhoda 
Rose 


Sam 
Sophia 
Sipio 
Stuart 
Sarah 
Sarah 
Suckey 
Senah 
Sapho 


Solomon 


Tucker 
Olvia 


N 
Story 
Pinckney 
Story 
Ferrell 
Bishop 


Story 


Bee 
Q 
R 


Dart (Elder) 
J. C. Calhoun 


Pickens 
Lorton 
Reese G. 


Story 

Dart 

North 
Whitner 

T Hamilton 
Gibbs 

Reese 

Story 

Miller 
Watkins 


G. Reese 
J. E. Smith 


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69 


A List of White Members in Hopewell Church 22d 


March 1835 


Anderson Robt. Senr. & Lady 
Anderson Robert Junr & Lady 
Anderson Thos & Lady 


Adams Cynthia 

B 
Benson E. B. & Lady 
Boggs J. N. & Lady 


Bishop Nicholis & Lady 


Bishop Jane 
Bishop Darky 
S 
Cator Mrs 
Carter Wm & Lady 


Clanahan James & Lady 


Cherry Susan 
Cherry Elizibeth 
Cherry Saml. S. 
Cherry Mary 
Caminard Polly 
D 

Dupree Mary 
Dupre Martha 
Dupree Susan 


1 
F 
Ferrell Mrs 
Ferrill Madison 
G 
Gaston Wm & Lady 
is 


Hubbert Margery 
Hunter Sarah 


ID PP WwW 


33 
34 


Died 10th Feb. 1847 
Died 1847 


Died 3d Aug. 1875 


70 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


Hunter Annah 35 
Hunter Mary Senr 36 
Hunter Mandanah 37 
Hunter Ethelinda 38 
Hunter Mary Junr 39 
Hunter Ann Junr 40 


March 26th 1835 
Reported as follows up to this date 


White members recd 3 
Coulered Do Do 1 
Do Do _ by Certificate it 
White Adults Baptised 2 
Do Infants Do 3 
Coulered Adults Baptised 14 
White members dismissed by Certificates 4 
Coulered Do Do “ 
White members now in the church 113 
Coulered Do Do Do Do ih 


184 


White members dead 2 Charles Story & Charles Gail- 
lard. 

Aprile 5th. 1835 (Sabath 1st.) 

Session met, Present Revd. Cator, J. Harris W. Walker, 
C. W. Miller T. S. Reese & E. Sharpe. When it was moved 
by Reese that the present record in the case of Mr. Story be 
expunged and a substitute which he offered be placed in leiu 
thereof. 

Aprile 12th 1835 (Sabath 2d) 

No. Session. A Sermon & Lecture. 

Aprile 19th. 1835 (Sabath 3d) 

No Sermon,—Revd. Kennedy who was to preach did not 
attend the day being so excessive wet & rainy— 

Aprile 26th. 1835 (Sabath 4th) 

No Session—Revd. Cator Preached & Lectured 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH ral 


May 3d. 1835 (Sabath 1st) 

Session met. Present Moderator, J. Harris W. Walker, 
C. W. Miller, E. B. Benson & EF. Sharpe. When it was 
moved & resolved that the sacrement of the Lords supper be 
administered on the 1st. Sabath in June & service to com- 
mence on the previous Friday. 

E. B. Benson had his child Baptised. 

May 10th. 1835 (Sabath 2d) 

Session met present Moderator J. Harris W. Walker C. 
W. Miller E. B. Benson & Elam Sharpe. When the Coul- 
ered people were instructed in the Gosple. 

Robt. Anderson Junr. Had his child Baptised. 


May 24th. 1835 Sabath 4th. 
No Session. Recd. from Revd. Cator 12 coppies of Min- 
uets of Presbetry of spring session 1835.— 


Sold to 


1 Col. Anderson 1 Coppy 

2 John Harris 1 Do 

3 C. W. Miller 1 Do Paid* 
4 E. B. Benson 1 Do Paid* 
5 E. Harris 1 Do 

6 Robt Anderson 1 Do Paid 
? “Madison Ferril 1 Do Paid* 
8 Mrs. Starks 1 Do 

9 Mrs. Ann Hunter 1 Do Paid* 
10 Mrs. Symms 1) Do, 


May 31st. 1835 (Sabath 5th) 

Session ment when J. H.— W. Walker— C. W. Miller & 
FE. B. Benson was appointed to superintend the Tables next 
Sabath. | 

June 7th. 1835 (Sabath 1st) 

Session met. Present Revd. Cator, W. Walker C. W. 
Miller & Elam Sharpe. When Mr. Frasere applied for 
admission & was duly examined & admited to all the privi- 
liges of the Church. 


72 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


Not so many communed as usial but the meeting was 
sollom. 

June 14th 1835 (Sabath 2d) 

No Session to-day.— 

June 21st. 1835 (Sabath 3d) 

Revd. Cater at Greenville. Revd. Dannelly fills the pul- 
pit.— 

June 28th. 1835.—(Sabath 4th) 

No Session to-day. 

3 Coulered children Baptised servants of Genl Whitners. 

July 5th. 1835. (Sabath 1st.) 

Service as usial—The coulered members questioned from 
Rev. Jones’s Chaticism & are found improving. 

July 12th. 1835.—(Sabath 2d.) 

No Session. 

July 19th. 183.—(Sabath 3d) 

Pastor absent. 

July 26th 1835 (Sabath 4th) 

Session conveaned. Present Moderator, J. Harris, W. 
Walker, C. W. Miller, E. B. Benson, T. S. Reese, & Elam 
Sharpe. When T. S. Reese applyed for Dismission for 3 
members & ordered that the Clerk furnish Mrs. Margaret 
Reese & Mrs. Elizabeth Cherry with letters dismissory & 
that the third member wait till a report is made to the session. 

1 Coulered child Baptised (North) 

Augt. 2d. 1835 (1st. Sabath) 

Augt. 9th. 1835 (2d Sabath) 

Session conveaned. present Revd. Cator John Harris W. 
Walker C. W. Miller E. B. Benson T.. S. Reese & E. Sharpe. 
When Mr. McGill offered himself for examination for 
Church priviliges—He was therefore examined & received 
into the Church. 

Sepr. 27th. 1835 (Sabath) 

Session Conveaned Present Moderator John Harris W. 
Walker C. W. Miller E. B. Benson T. S. Reese & Elam 


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Sharpe. When on motion resolved that John Harris attend 
Presbetry with our pastor. 

October 11th 1835.—(Sabath 2d) 

Novemr. 2d. 1835 Reported 81 white members, 60 Coul- 
ered, 2 whites Baptised, 4 Coulered, 2 Whites recd. Coul- 
ered & 3 Whites dismissed. 

January 3d. 1836 Sabath Ist. 

Session conveaned Present Revd. Frasure E. B. Ben- 
son C. W. Miller E. Sharpe. When an informal conversa- 
tion took place on the subject of Missions —A small col- 
lection taken up. 

January 10th. 1836 (Sabath 2d) 

Thos. Andersons Child Baptised & by consent a Certifi- 
cate given to Edmond & wife of course dismissed.—A Certi- 
cate also sent to John Dickson & Wife in Alabama.— 

1836 August 3 

At a meeting of the Society of Hopewell Congregation it 
was agreed by the Society to engage W. Ross to labour 
within the bounds of this Congregation for one year 3-4 of 
his time and upon his agreeing to labour with us a subscrip- 
tion was opened and $239.50 subscribed for 3-4 of his time. 

August 3d. 1837— 

The Revd. A. W. Ross agreed to continue his labours 
within the bounds of this Congregation for one year 3-4 of 
year 3-4 of his time, to be devoted this congregation a sub- 
scription was opened and $319 subscribed for his service— 

Septr 5th 1838 

At the Anaversary meeting of the Hopewell Congregation 
it was agreed to engage with Mr. Ross for another year 3-4 
of his time, a subscription was opened and $308:75 sub- 
scribed. 

Septr 4th. 1839 

At the Anaversary meeting of the Hopewell Congregation 
it was agreed to engage With Mr. Ross for another year a 
subscription was opened and $329 subscribed. 


74 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


The 3d Sabath in August 1839 

Sam S. Cherry was installed Elder by Revd. A. W. Ross. 

11th November 1839. 

Ezekiel Harris and Lady Dismissed and moved to Missis- 
sippi. 

28th. October Robert Anderson’s Child Babtized. 

8th. December. The day appointed by the General As- 
sembly for the Semi centenary celebration which was ob- 
served in our Church with considerable attention. 

2d Apr. 1840 Thos J. Picken’s three Children Babtized. 

Sacrament 3 Sabbath in Apr 

Mr. E. B. Bensons Child Babtized on Saturday and 
Abram a servant of Mr. Thos. Pickens on Sunday. 

C. W. Miller Died on 29th. May 1840 

Sacrament 3d Sabbath in August. 

P. C. Dupre’s Child Babtized also Phillis a Servant be- 
longing to T. J. Pickens. 

Sacrament 2d Sabbath in May 1840. 

Miss Francy Dickson was admitted to membership by 
examination. 

Four Black servants namely Billy Jinny Nanny & Dianna 
belonging to T. J. & Mrs. E. Pickens was admitted & Bap- 
tised— 

Septr 2d. 1840—Being the annaversary 

At a meeting of the society it was agreed to engage with 
Mr. Ross for another year a subscription was opened and 
Two Hundred & Seventy Two Dollars subscribed. 

$272 subscribed. 

William Walker died 25. Jany 1841. 

Septr Ist. 1841. Being the annaversary of the society a 
meeting was held at the Church and agreed to engage with 
Mr. Ross for another year a subscription was opened and the 
sum of 


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August 3d, 1840. List of White Members Belonging to the 
Hopewell Church, Pendleton. 


A Harris Eliza dismissed 1 


Anderson Robert & Lady 2 Harris Ann 
Anderson Mrs. G. T. 1 J. 
B Jenkins W. L. dismissed 1 
Benson E. B. & Lady 2 L. 
deceased Lorton Mrs. 1 
Bishop Nicholas & Lady g Lewis Mary Mrs dismissed 1 
Bishop Jane 1 Lorton Amanda Mrs. 
Bishop Darkey 1 M 
ee Miller Elizabeth died Ist March, 
Cherry S. S. 1 1884 1 
Cherry Susan 1 Miller Jane Senr 1 
Cherry Mary 1 Miller Jane Junr 1 
Commonade Polly 1 Miller Sarrah Mrs. 1 
Carne Mrs. Dead 1 Mr. Jno. C. Miller and Lady 2 
Carne Miss Dismissed 1 Pp 
2h hs Pickens Elizabeth 1 
Dupree C. P. & Lady dismissed 2 pickens Mrs. T. J. 1 
Dupree Susan Dismissed 1 
Dukes Ann dismissed 1 R. 
Dickson Mrs. dismissed 1 Reese Anna 1 
F Reese Rebecah dismissed 1 
j Ross Mrs. 1 
Ferrell Mrs. deceased i 
H. S: 
Sharp Elam & Lady Q 
Hubbard Mrs. 1 4 ; 
Hunter Anna Wolf Creek 1 Stark Elizabeth ; 
Hunter Mary Senr 1 eta teat oNT 
Hunter Mandanah 1 Ww. 
Hunter Ethilinda 1 Removed by death 1841 
Hunter Mary Junr 1 Walker Wm. & Lady 2 
Hunter Anna Junr 1 Walker Eliza 1 
Harris Susan deceased 1 Walker Matilda 1 
Harris John & Lady 2 53 White Members. 


Sacrament 5th Sabbath Oct. 1841. 
Persons admitted to membership 
Miss Elizabeth Sharpe 
Miss Mary Smith, Babtized 
Jesse P. Lewis, Babtized died Nov. 1845 
Thos H. Russell dismissed 


Andrew Pickens and his wife Agnes Pickens admitted 
by letter from Valley Creek Church Alabama also Alfred 
Fuller of the Methodist Church. 


6—O. S. C. 


76 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


C. P. DuPre Miss Susan DuPre and Miss Martha Carne 
having applied to the Session for letters of dismission to 
join the Methodist Church which was granted. 


Sacrament 3d Sabbath Mch. 1842 


Elam Sharpe and Mrs. Eliza Sloan admitted to member- 
ship. Mrs. Sloan Baptized. 

Charlott a servant belonging to G. T. Anderson rec'd 
into the Church having previous been a member but sus- 
pended for disorderly conduct. 

Sept. 1842 Mrs. Jane Bishop removed by Death 

The Sacrament was administered 4th Sabbath of August 
1842 Doc Leland & Rev. J Hillhouse & Rey. B. D. DuPre 
assisting. Oct. 16th 1842 Mr. Alarson Forbes and his sis- 
ter Miss Cynthia Forbes were received on dismission from 
Carmel Ch. S. C. Also Mrs. Keziah Forbes received on 
certificate from the Methodist Episcop. Ch. 

Coloured Members. On a review of the coloured mem- 
bers of Hopewell Church ordered by the Session on the 23d 
October 1842. The following members were ascertained to 
have a regular connexion with the Church: 


Hannah sert of D. Cherry 
Andy do dismissed 
Phillis—Thos Pickens 
Mary—Doc Symmes 
Cato—Mrs. Walker 
Jack—J. C. Griffin 
Diannah free W. T. Pickens 
Lucy—Maj Simpson 

Rose deceased J. C. Calhoun 
Dick—Mrs Dart 

Billy—T. J. Pickens 
Stuart—J. W. Whitner 
Jim excluded J. L. North 
Free Dinah 


Mary deceased Gaillard 
Nancy Mrs Pickens 
Jane Mrs Pickens 
Dinah deceased Mrs Pickens 
nyl Moses C. C. Pinckney 
Maria—Harleston 
Romeo R. Anderson 
Agga do 

Hannah— Maverick 
Diannah—Mrs. Pickens 
Billy—Bishop 

Nelly do 
Andrew—Sloan 
Jerry—R. Anderson 


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Caty—Bishop Abram—T. J. Pickens 
Charlotte deceased do Betsey removed J. L. North 
Solomon—Watkins Ned—C. C. Pinckney 
Mariah—do Jenny Mrs Pickens 
Charlotte—G. T. Anderson nyl. Hannah—C. C. Pinck- 
Soffa—Miller ney. 


The three last Moses, Hannah and Maria are reported 
to have forsaken the ordinances of this Church. Where- 
upon they are cited to appear before the Session of this 
Church and answer to the charge. Mary a servant of Mrs 
Walker having formerly been in the Communion of this 
Church and having been under suspension for the irregu- 
larity of forming a connection without a formal marriage, 
came before the Session and acknowledged her faults and 
professed penitence for her former careless manner of life, 
whereupon she is received under the care of this Session 
to be restored in due time so soon as it shall be satisfactorily 
ascertained that she shows her reformation to be genuine 
and permanent. 

Oct 3d 1842 Appeared before this Session June sert D. 
Cherry and professed penitence his past conduct. June 
had been in the communion of this Church and had been 
excluded for disorderly conduct, his case was deferred. 
August 3 Sabbath 1842. The Sacrament of the Lord’s Sup- 
per was administered and a Meeting of four days continu- 
ance with considerable interest. (Doctor Leland assisting) 

Septem. 5th. 1842 Mr. Alanson Forbes and his sister 
Cynthia Forbes were received by letter from Carmel Ch. and 
Keziah Forbes was recd by letter from the Methodist Ch. 

Nov. Sacrament administered. Revd. D. Humphrey as- 
sisted. 

1843 Jan. 3d. Sabbath. Mr. R. Anderson child 
baptized. 

3d Sabbath March. The Sacrament of the Lord’s supper 
was administered There being services on Saturday and 


78 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


Sabbath only. The weather being cold and stormy. Revd. 
D. Humphrey assisting. 
1843 
4 Sabbath May the Sacrament was administered in Hope- 
well Ch. Assisted by Brethren J. L. Kennedy and B. D. 
Dupre— 
3d Sab June. Mr. Alanson Forbes child was baptized.— 
1843 
1 Sab August. Mrs. Elizabeth White a member of this 
church but living out of the reach of Presbyterian churches, 
and wishing to retain her connexion with this church ob- 
tained Baptism for her two children. 
Third Sabbath in August the Sacrament of the Supper 
was administered Rev. Doc Howe assisting— 
Noy. 25 Mr. N. Bishop removed by death Approved in 
Presbytery 1844 H. Dickson, Mod. 
1844 May 3d. Sabbath Sacrament administered 
October 4 Sabath Sacrament administered 
June Mr. D. Cherry servant was admitted on exami- 
nation. 
Sept. Sacrament administered 20—with assistance 
Rev. Wm Carlisle 
November 30: Mrs. Jane Gould was received by certificate 
from the fourth Presbyterian church in Baltimore. 
1845 
May 5 Mr. R. Anderson dismissed— 
Feb. 10 Mrs. Agnes Pickens removed by death. 
1845 February 15th. Mrs. M. DuPree dismissed to con- 
nect herself with the Methodist Church. 
20 Mrs. Ferrell removed by death. 
25 James servant of Mr. North excluded for immorality 
May 5 The Sacrament administered. The Rev. Br. Mc.- 
Bride assisting. 
Septr. 14 The Sacrament administered assisted by Revd. 
Br. Mc. Bride. ‘The young brethren Gebert and Hilhouse 
assisted in preaching. ‘The meeting was continued on fri- 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 79 


day saturday and sabbath. When four members were ad- 
mitted to the communion of the Ch. Washington Liddel on 
examination Patric Miller Certif. Jn. C. Miller restored and 
George a servant of Mrs. E. Pickens on examination. At 
which time George was baptized. Mr. Elam Sharpes child 
was baptized. 


= = © sje e @ ee eye ele ajo ete sje ee ot 2 ce ate ace ele c-e ele o's cise cine eee e ee 


1845 The thursday before the first sabbath in November 
The Synod of South Carolina held its first session in the 
Presbyterian Church in Pendleton, S. C. Opened by the 
Rev. Edwin Palmer. Dr. Palmer died in 1882 in 94th year 
of age. 

On Saturday Mrs. Susannah Lewis wife of Jesse P. Lewis 
was admitted on examination. 

On 1st Sabbath of November The Sacrament of the 
Lords Supper was administered* 

*Doctor Lelans preaching the Sermon and the mem- 
bers of the Synod officiating. 

When there was witnessed a season of great solemnity and 
the manifestation of the power and presence of Christ. 

1846 Third Sabath in May the Sacrament of the Lords 
supper was administered. Rev. Br. Davis of Willington 
assisting. 

1846 Fifth Sabath in August the Sacrament was adminis- 
tered. Rev. Doc Leland assisting. 


August 1846—Hopewell Pendleton—List of White Mem- 
bers Belonging to this Church. 


0 Anderson Susan x Caminade Polly 9 


0 Anderson Mary B. 1 x Fuller Alfred 10 
0 Benson E. B. 2 x Fuller Eliza 11 
0 Benson Esther 3 x Gould Jane 12 
0 Bishop Jane 4 0 Hubbard Mrs. 13 
x Bishop Darkey 5 0 Hunter Mary 14 
0 Cherry S. S. 6 0 Hunter Mandanah 15 
x Cherry Suson 7 O Hunter Etherlinda 16 
0 Cherry Mary 8 0 Lorton Mrs. 17 


80 


0 
0 
0 
0 


ceocoom~ooouonxnoococoece 


Phillis 


Lorton Amanda 
Lewis Susan 
Leddele Geo. W. 
Miller Elizabeth 
Miller Jane Senr. 
Miller Jane Junr. 
Miller Jno. C. 
Miller Mrs. 

Pickens Elizabeth 
Pickens Mrs. T. J, 
Pickens A. C. 

Ross Mrs. 

Sharp Elam Snr. 
Sharp Elizabeth Mrs. 
Sharp Elizabeth Miss 
Sharp Elam Jnr. 
Sharp Mrs. not recd 
Stark Mrs. 

Symms Sarah 

Sloan Eliza 

Smith Mary Miss 
Walker Mrs. 
Walker Matilda 
Hunter Anna 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


on AK ” oo 


i SES 


Wolf Creek 
Harris Susan 
Harris Ana 
Josephs wife 
Miss Mary 
(now Humphrey) 
Mr. Patrick Miller 
Mrs. Sarah Miller 
Mrs. Anna Reese 
Mrs. W. Liddel 


Louisa Caruth 

Mrs. Catharine Gould 
Anna E. Ross 

Sarah Leadbetter 
Elizabeth Maxwell 
Harriet Maxwell 
Mrs. Duke 
J. C. Smith 


dismissed Mrs. T. E. Smith 


Mrs. S. E. Smith 
Miss Sarah Smith 
Died Jan. 15th. 1847 


HOPEWELL PENDLETON 


August, 1846—Colored members in the church. 


T. J. Pickens 


Cato Mrs. Walker 
Jack Elam Sharp 
Lucy Major Simpson 
Richard Doc. Gaillard 


Billey 


T. J. Pickens 


Stewart J. N. Whitner 
Nancy Mrs. Pickens 
Dianah Mrs. Pickens 
Billey Miss Bishop 
Nelly “ “ 
Andrew T. M. Sloan 
Free Dinah 

Caty Miss Bishop 


Died 6th. Oct. 1872 


Solomon Watkins 
Mariah sf 


1847 Apl. 18th. 


15 


Abram T. J. Pickens 


Jenny 


Mrs. Pickens 


June D. Cherry 


Mary 


Mrs. Walker 


Geo. Mrs. Pickens 
Hannah Mr. Mavarick 
Rhoda Mrs. Lorton 


deceased Ap. 10th. 1849 
Priscilla Rev. A. W. Ross 
Phillis Junr T. J. Pickens 


Mary do 
(Mrs. Pickens Jane) 
Olivia Mr. Josh Smith 
Mary Symmes 
Charlotte Pike 

Peter Pickens by letter 


Malessa Pickens do 


Infant daughter of Mr. E. Sharpe Jun 
Martha Ramsay was baptized. 


Hunter Junr 


Mrs. J. Walker, whites 


Al 
42 


43 


50 
52 


1847 May 2. Sacrament of the Lords supper administered. 


Mr. Turner assisting. 


do. Mrs. Catharine Gould was admitted to the communion 
of this Church. 
Mrs. Mary Humphrey (formerly Hunter) was dismissed 
at her own request. 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 81 


June 6 1847 Peter servant of T. Pickens was received by 
letter recommending him from Valley Creek Ch. Alabama. 

Melissa Sert. of Do by do from do— 

1 Sab. October Sacrament administered Rev. D. Humph- 
reys assisting 

December 10th. 1847 

Mrs. J. Gould and Miss K. Gould were dismissed in good 
standing. 

1848 ist. Sabbath June the Sacrament of the supper was 
administered Mr. L. L. Holmes assisting. 

Two members were admitted to the Church. Anna E. 
Ross and Priscilla sert of A. W. Ross. 

1848 

Noy. 25 Mr. Robert Patterson received by the Session on 
his dismission from the Pres. Church of Snow Hill Mary- 
land. 

4 Sabbath in November 1848. The Sacrament was admin- 
istered Brethren J. Hillhouse & J. L. Kennedy assisting. 
1849 5th. Sab. in Apr. The Sacrament of the Supper ad- 
ministered Brethren J. Hillhouse Sen & E. T. Buist assist- 
ing. 

Two members were admitted on examination and baptized 
Viz. Phillis and Mary servants of T. J. Pickens. 

Noy. 4th. Sabbath Sacrament administered Services 
commenced Friday evening & on Saturday and Saturday 
night. Bro. Jno. McLees assisting. 

Feby. 4th. Sabbath. Miss Harriet Maxwell rec’d and bap- 
tized. 

Fourth Sabbath in May the Sacrament of the Lords Sup- 
per was administered, assisted on Saturday by the Licentiate 
Br. R. Reid and on Sabbath by our Methodist Br. W. Mul- 
inix. At the meeting the following members were received 
Mr. Josiah E Smith Mrs. Sarah T. Smith and Miss Sarah L. 
Smith dismissed regularly and in good standing from the 
first Presbyterian Church in Columbia $. C. And Mrs. 


82 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


Smith wife of sd J. E. Smith on examination was admitted 
to the communion of this church. 

The Hopewell church held a congregational meeting on 
wednesday before the above related Sacramental meeting 
when three Members Elam Sharp, Washington Liddle and 
Josias E. Smith (in expectation of uniting himself with this 
Church) were nominated to the office of Ruling Elders. 

Then an adjourned meeting was appointed on June 2 
185— 

1850 

June 9 the Second Sabbath— Gilbert Snowdon Smith in- 
fant son of Josias E. Smith was baptized by Rev. A. W. 
Ross in the Hopewell Church in Pendleton. 

A Sacramental meeting was holden in hopewell Church 
(pendleton) on Sabbath 25th. of August assisted by Br. Eid- 
mund Anderson. 

The appointment for the ordination of the three Elders 
elect on Saturday previous was disappointed, the day being 
an unusual storm of rain and wind. 

But on Sabbath morning before the action sermon two of 
said Elders elect Josiah E. Smith and Elam Sharp Jun were 
solemnly and due form ordained to the office of ruling Elders 
of the Hopewell Church (P). 1850 Aug. 25. 

Received by dismission from the 1st. Presbyterian Ch. of 
Columbia a coloured woman Olivia servant of Josiah E. 
Smith. 

Revd. A. W. Ross closed his labours in the Pendleton 
Church in 1851. 

Revd. T. L. McBryde D. D. Commenced his Labours 
Nov. 1851 and closed at death which took place 15th. Apl. 
1863. 


Sunday Morning October 27th. 1850 


The Session of Hopewell Presbyterian Church met this 
day. Present Revd. A. W. Ross, Mr. Benson, Mr. Cherry, 
Mr. Smith, Mr. Sharpe Jr. 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 83 


Mr. Ross was requested to act as Moderator and E.. Sharpe 
Jr. as clerk. Opened by prayer. 

On motion of Mr. Benson the Moderator appointed a com- 
mittee of three to examine into the number of members be- 
longing to this Church. 

Committee—Mr. Benson Mr. Smith Mr. Sharpe. 

Mr. Smith was appointed a delegate to represent this 
church in the Synod of So. Carolina on the thursday before 
the 3d. Sabbath in November next at Long Cane Church Ab- 
beville Dist. 

Mr. Benson was appointed to attend the adjourned meet- 
ing of Presbytery which meet on friday before the 2d Sab- 
bath in November at Anderson Co. House. 

On Motion it was resolved that this session meet on the 
2d. Sabbath in every month one hour before preaching. 

On Motion it was Resolved that notice be given for a spe- 
cial meeting of the Corporation and Congregation of this 
Church to take place on next Saturday the 2d. of November. 

Session adjourned by prayer. 

Elam Sharpe Jr. Clerk. 
Note 

Sermon preached this day by Mr. Ross—Congregation 
small collection taken up for Presbyterial fund amounting to 
$11.25 ct. 

Saturday Novr. 2d. 1850 

The Session met this day after the meeting of the Congre- 
gation. 

FE. B. Benson Chairman of committee appointed to report 
the number of members belonging to this church at this time 
reported. 

Whites 42 
Blacks 28 70 

On motion of Mr. Smith the session requested Mr. Ross 
to supply our pulpit on next Sabbath to which request he ac- 
ceeded.* 


84 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


Adjourned. (declined afterwards without giving his 
reasons for so doing) Elam Sharpe Jr. Secty. 

On the last Sabbath in December the Sacrament was ad- 
ministered Mr. McBride & Mr. McLees ministers present 
meeting was to have commenced the friday before but the 
weather prevented. 


By direction of the Session the Secty was directed to invite 
Mr. Ross to preach for us on in to this invitation 
addressed to him by note he replied verbally declining to do 
so. 

On the 1st. Sabbath in March Mr. Humphreys preached 
for us a good congregation present. On the 2d. Sabbath in 
March Mr. Reed preached to us—the services commenced 
the friday night before; attendance on sabbath was good— 

By direction of the Session the Sectry was directed to ad- 
dress a letter to the Chairman of the Committee appointed 
by the last presbytery to visit the congregations in their 
bounds and to invite them to visit our church as soon as pos- 
ible, to this invitation Judge Whitner the Chairman replyed 
stating that it would be out of his power to do so. 

A letter was then addressed to Mr. Gaillard another one of 
the Committee requesting their attendance. 

By direction of the session letters of dismission were given 
to Mr. P. J. Miller & Mrs. Sarah Miller also to Mrs. Carlisle 
(formally Miss E. C. Sharpe) 

ELAM SHARPE Jr. clerk - 
of session. 

Approved in Pres’y April 26th. 1851 

J. C. WiLL1AMs Mod. 


At a meeting of the session held this day July 19 1851 It 
appearing to the Elders that the Rev’d M. McBryde who was 
spending a short time in this congregation would make a 
very acceptable pastor for this church, notice was given for 
a meeting of the congregation on the 21st. Instant. 


THE OLD STONE; CHURCH 85 


July 20th. Sabbath. Mr. Hillhouse assisted by Mr. Mc- 
Bride administered the Sacrament on to-day. Miss Sarah 
Ann Leadbetter presented herself before the Church this day 
for examination the session being satisfied with her examina- 
tion she was baptized and received into the Church. 

ELAM SHARPE Jr. Clerk of 


July 20th, 1851 Session 


August 3d. 1851 Sabbath. Rev'd. McBryde preached 
this day congregation good. preached to the coloured peo- 
ple in the afternoon. 

Applycation being made for letters of dismission for Mrs 

Ross & Mrs. A. E. Harrison (was Miss Ross) it was 
ordered that letters be given them. 

Sunday February 8th. The Lords Supper was adminis- 
tered this day Rev'd J. L. Kennedy assisting Rev'd Thos. 
McBryde 

Rev'd Servant of Mrs. Pickens after examination was 
pabtised and received into the Church. 

Approved in Presbytery 
April 24th. 1852 R. H. Rew Mod. 


Directors T. Society for 1835 


C. C. Pinckney Doc. Stuart 

Doc. Cherry Doc. Reese 

John Harris Elam Sharpe 

C. W. Miller. 
INDEX. 

Subscription of Missions & Education page 31 
Letter from the Church in Greenville Awe 
Rev'd Caters Reasons for not acting as Moderator 32 
Elements by whom furnished 40 


2 White members admitted 


86 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


Couloured members Rec’d 22 
Sale of Minutes 30 
Sale of Minutes 42 
Motion for reform in Church 32 
Rev'd A. Foster claiming a ballance due him 29 
List of Couloured members 53 
List of White members for March 1835 54 
Report for March 1835 56 
Do for March 1834 25 
Sale of Minutes 1835 57 
List of White members for 1853 15 
Application for dismission 59 
Report for Nov’r 2d 1835 60 


Directors T. Society for 1833. 


C. C. Pinckney Doc Stuart 
Doc. Cherry Doc Reese 
John Harris Elam Sharpe 


C. W. Miller 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 87 


HOPEWELL CONGREGATION AND OLD STONE 
CHURCH.* 


Vol I. Period 1780-1790. Pages 559-560. 


Hopewell Church, sometimes called Hopewell (Keowee), 
or Hopewell (on Seneca). The first notice of this con- 
gregation occurs in the minutes of the Presbytery of South 
Carolina, October 13th, 1789. “A people on Seneca apply 
to be taken under our care and receive supplies.”’ At the 
same meeting John Simpson is appointed to supply them 
one Sabbath. “It was organized,’ says one account, “in 
1788 or 1789, by the spirited exertions of a few men who 
removed from Abbeville. They were not so numerous as 
the people of Carmel, but better united, more catholic in their 
principles, and dispositions, and liberal in their sentiments. 
A few of their number are wealthy and very forward to sup- 
port the Gospel ; among whom are General Pickens and Cclo- 
nel Robert Anderson, both men of great influence in the 
State of South Carolina. Messrs. Calhoun and DeSaussure, 
two eminent lawyers in Charleston, have done themselves 
much honor by liberally subscribing for the assistance of this 
church. Owing to these circumstances, their ability to sup- 
port religion in proportion to their numbers is greater than 
that of any other congregation in the upper part of the 
State.” (Brief MS. account of the congregations at Hope- 
well and Carmel, by Thomas Reese, September 15th, 1793.) 
“Tt was formed,” says another account, “in union with Car- 
mel Church, which stands a few miles to the eastward of it, 
entirely since the Revolution, by the gradual immigration of 
different families of Presbyterians who removed thither 
from different quarters. General Andrew Pickens and Gen- 
eral Robert Anderson, both from Abbeville, contributed in 
no small degree, by their example in removing hither with 
their families, to encourage settlers of their own denomina- 
tion here.” (MS. History of the Churches in the second 


*Howe’s History of the Presbyterian Church in S. C. 


88 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


Presbytery of South Carolina.) This church is near the 
village of Pendleton, a few miles north of it. Its first house 
of worship was of logs, not built, according to Mr. Dickson, 
till 1791, but it gave place, in 1802, to one of stone, and “the 
Stone Meeting House’’ has been the well known designation 
of both the edifice and the church.* 


Vol. I. Period 1790-1800. Pages 636-37-38-39-40. 


Hopewell (Keowee) remained still associated with Car- 
mel. The two congregations are in what was Pendleton 
County, a tract of land about forty miles square, ceded by the 
Cherokees at the treaty, in May, 1777. It was so rapidly 
settled, that when the census was taken by Congress, about 
five years after the chief settlements commenced, it contained 
about nine thousand five hundred souls, and was estimated 
to have reached ten thousand in 1793. Hopewell was first 
organized in 1788 or 1789. In December, 1792, in conse- 
quence of an invitation from these two churches, the Rey. 
Thomas Reese, having been dismissed from his former 
charge at Salem, on Black River, and having considerably 
lost his health by a long and laborious application to the 
duties of the Gospel ministry, in the low country, removed 
his family into the bounds of Carmel congregation, and be- 
came the pastor of the two churches, preaching to them 
alternately. Carmel consisted at that time of about sixty 
families and Hopewell of about forty. 

“Those who make a profession of religion,’ says Dr. 
Reese, “are well informed, considering the opportunities 
they have had. They are attentive to the instruction of 
their children in the principles of religion and many of them 

* The treaty of Hopewell was concluded by General Pickens, on his 
place called Hopewell, in 1785, with the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chicka- 
saws, and Creeks, who were assembled for that purpose, and formed four 
different encampments. General Pickens fought a battle with the 
Cherokees at Mount Tomassa, where he also settled a place. He had a 
fondness for being near the Indians. He was a man of few words, 


rather stern in his manner, but of great integrity, wisdom and courage, 
and was greatly respected by his Indian neighbors as by all others. 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 89 


appear to be truly pious. A considerable number of the 
people in Carmel formerly leaned to the seceders; but they 
seemed to become more liberal, and all join, except a few 
of the most ignorant and bigoted. 


‘The people who compose these two congregations are, 
in general, remarkable for the great simplicity of their man- 
ners, the plainness of their dress, and their frugal manner 
of living. At the distance of 250 miles from the Capital, 
they are strangers to luxury and refinement. Blessed with 
a healthy climate, brought up in habits of labor and industry, 
and scarce of money, they are for the most part clothed in 
lfomespun; nourished by the produce of their own farms, 
and happily appear to have neither taste nor inclination for 
high and expensive living. There is a quiet degree of 
equality among them. By far the greater part are in what 
might be called the middle station of life. None are very 
rich, few are extremely poor. ‘There are few slaves among 
them and these are treated with great kindness and human- 
ity. They enjoy all that liberty which is compatible with 
their situation; and are exempted from that rigorous bond- 
age to which their unhappy countrymen in the lower parts 
of the State are subjected. These are all circumstances 
favorable to virtue and religion and give ground to hope 
that these will flourish long here, when they shall have been 
in a great measure banished from those parts of the country 
where slavery, luxury and wealth have taken possession. 
As the country is in its infancy we have yet to expect that 
these congregations will soon become much stronger, and in 
the course of a few years, if peace continues, it is probable 
that each of them will be able to support a minister. It is 
a pleasing reflection to the friends of religion, that as the 
people travel westward, the gospel travels with them, or soon 
follows after them; that God inclines the hearts of ministers, 
respectable for learning, worth, and piety, to settle in these 
uncultivated regions. It is a consideration which often af- 
fects pious ministers and pious people, when convened for 


90 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


public worship, that in these wild-extended forests, where the 
cruel savage lately roamed, Christian churches are erected, 
and Christian congregations assemble to pay their homage to 
the great Lord and Father of all; and that in these very 
places, where a few years ago nothing was heard but the 
songs and the shouts of the Indians, the glad tidings of sal- 
vation are proclaimed, and the voice of prayer and thanks- 
giving arise to the Creator and Redeemer of all. Reflections 
of this kind call to mind the words of the evangelic prophet, 
‘The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them, 
and the desert shall bloom as the rose,’ &c. 

“Drawn up in great haste by THOMAS REESE.” 

“September 15, 1793.” 

We have copied this as a description of these congrega- 
tions, by their pastor, and a witness contemporary with the 
times of which we speak. It is a portion of one of those 
brief histories of churches ordered by the General Assembly, 
and written by special appointment of presbytery, which 
was designed to furnish materials for the history of the 
American Presbyterian Church, to several of which papers 
we have been greatly indebted. It is a favorable specimen 
of the style of this eminent clergyman who was probably 
the most finished writer of that day in our portion of the 
church. 

The birth, parentage and earlier life of Dr. Reese, have 
been quoted on pages 411, 492, and 493, from a memoir 
written by Dr. Witherspoon, of Alabama, and forwarded 
tor our use. We proceed to give that portion which be- 
longs to the period over which we now pass, which proved 
to be the closing period of his life: 

“About the vear 1790, circular letters were written by 
Mr. Austin, editor of the American Preacher, to distin- 
guished preachers of all denominations, requesting them to 
furnish two sermons annually, that a selection might be 
made from them, and published as specimens of pulpit elo- 
quence: in the United States. One of these letters was ad- 


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dressed to Dr. Thomas Reese, and he sent on two sermons 
which were published. In the 4th volume of this excellent 
miscellany, he appears as the only contributor south of Vir- 
ginia. Among his unpublished manuscript were specimens 
of poetical talent, highly creditable. His farewell sermon 
to his congregation in Salem was published at the request 
of his church, and is still possessed by some of the members, 
and esteemed for the excellent advice it contains. Dr. Reese 
was in person easy of access, a friend to human nature, but 
particularly attached to men of science and religion. With 
powers of mind equal to his benevolence and piety, he justly 
held a conspicuous place among eminent and good men. 
As a proof of the deference paid to his talents by his 
brethren in religious assemblies, he was selected by some 
leading men of the presbytery of South Carolina, on a cer- 
tain occasion, to repel the charges brought by the Rev. W. 
C. Davis, in a discourse preached before that body, in which 
he denounced all his fellow-Christians who owned slaves. 
This reply of Dr. Reese met the entire approbation of the 
presbytery, and greatly mortified Davis, this early advocate 
of abolition, in 1794. It is an able argument on the subject 
of slavery, and shows how early this vexed question had 
been introduced into the Southern church. It is still extant 
and in the possession of his quondam pupil. Dr. Reese’s 
theological opinions were founded solely on the authority 
of the Scriptures, and of course Orthodox. His appear- 
ance in the pulpit was graceful and dignified, his style flow- 
ing and elegant. He was in the habit generally of writing 
out his sermons with great care, and seldom, if ever, took 
the manuscript in the pulpit. His preaching was of the 
extempore kind, adding to the mature reflections of the study, 
the powers of his native oratory. His flowing tears. and 
often suppressed voice, told the feelings of the heart, anxious 
only for the salvation of souls and the glory of God. Like 
Paul he warned his hearers day and night with tears. His 
success in his ministerial labors evince the power and pres- 
TO) SiG: 


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ence of the Holy Spirit. It is a subject of painful regret 
that the examples of such men as Dr. Reese, Edwards, 
Whitefield,and others, should be lost, and that their successful 
manner of awakening and instructing their hearers, should 
be supplanted by the cold and prosy reading of sermons from 
the pulpit which so effectually lulls to sleep a waiting audi- 
ence, or binds them up, in the present day. Dr. Reese was 
also an ardent lover of sacred music, and was careful to 
have his congregation well instructed in this devotional part 
of worship. His own melodious voice, mingled with those 
of the whole congregation, filled God’s court with sounding 
praise. He did not trust this part of divine worship to a 
choir, which, as the proxy of the congregation, might sing 
praises to God; but adopted in his teaching the language of 
David in the 67th Psalm. Let all the people praise thee, O 
God; repeating the injunction in the 5th verse, Let ell the 
people praise thee,O God. For classical literature, so much 
decried by the superficial, he was a great advocate, and to 
evince his sincerity, retained the knowledge of the dead 
languages as long as he lived. 

“As a teacher he had a peculiar facility of communicat- 
ing knowledge, and the happy talent of commanding respect 
without severity. For a period of five or six years of his 
life, and that too past the meridian, exclusive of his perform- 
ing the regular duties of a pastor, preaching on the Sabbath 
and lecturing to the colored part of his congregation, he 
superintended a small farm, and attended to a large classical 
school, with but little assistance, in the course of the week. 
And it is well recollected, that during more than one season 
he preached two sermons on the Sabbath, and performed. 
besides, the other duties mentioned above. 

“Dr. Reese was ‘given to hospitality,’ and evinced his 
benevolence by visiting the sick and afflicted, and relieving 
the wants of the poor and needy. Having read many medi- 
cal authors, and being conversant with physicians, he had 
acquired a pretty general knowledge of Southern diseases, 


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and in his visits to the sick frequently imparted not only 
spiritual consolation, but medical aid. This was the more 
acceptable, as at that time there were no physicians near him. 
In the winter of 1792 and 1793 he removed from Salem to 
Pendleton District, South Carolina, being among the first 
who removed from the low country to the upper. 


“Having settled near Pendleton village, he took charge of 
two churches, one near Seneca River, in the neighborhood 
of Generals Pickens and Anderson, the other church some 
ten or twelve miles distant. In these he labored some years; 
but the climate of the upper country not agreeing with his 
constitution, his health declined. He was attacked with 
hydrothorax in the latter part of his life, and such was the 
nature of his disease, that he did not lie down for weeks 
previous to his death. He bore this affliction with great 
patience and resignation to the will of his divine Master, 
and died in 1796, aged 54 years. His remains lie in the 
graveyard, attached to the Old Stone Church, near the vil- 
lage of Pendleton.* 

“Chancellor James, of South Carolina, in his Life of 
Marion, speaking of Dr. Reese, says: 

““In contemplating the meek and unobtrusive manners 
of this eminent servant of the Most High, we do not hesi- 
tate to say he was a pattern of Christian charity, as nearly 
resembling the Divine Master as has been exhibited by any 
of his contemporary fellow-laborers in the Gospel.’ 

“Tt may be truly said, in conclusion, of this excellent man, 


* Epitaph of the Reverend Thomas Reese, D. D. 


Here rest the remains of the Rev. Tuomas ReeEsE, D. D., a native of 
Pennsylvania, who departed this life in the hopes of a blessed immor- 
tality, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety- 
six, aged fifty-four years. He was pastor of Salem Church, Black 
River, about twenty years. He was then chosen pastor of Hopewell and 
Carmel congregations, and died a few years after. Exemplary in all 
the social relations of life, as a son, husband, father, and citizen, he 
lived esteemed and beloved, and died lamented. His talents as a writer 
and preacher were of a highly respectable grade, and were always 
directed to promote the virtue and happiness of his fellow-men. 


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that he lived esteemed, and died lamented by an extensive 
circle of warm and devoted friends. 
“J. R. WITHERSPOON.” 

“Brookland, near Greensboro, Ala., 6th September, 
1851.” 

Hopewell and Carmel (late Twenty-Three Mile Creek) 
reported, sorrowfully, to Presbytery, the death of Dr. Reese, 
and asked to be supplied. 

The following is their petition: 


“To the Rev. Presbytery of South Carolina, to sit at Naza- 
reth, on the third Tuesday or Wednesday of October 
next: 

“The remonstrance and petition of the united congrega- 
tions of Hopewell, on Keowee River, and Carmel, on 
Twenty-Three Mile Creek, both of the County of Pendleton, 
and State of South Carolina. 

“Humbly sheweth: That we are left destitute of the ordi- 
nances of the gospel in both of our congregations, by the 
death of Rev. Thomas Reese, of whose labors we had share 
in each congregation as our pastor. We, therefore, make 
known our destitute condition to your Reverend Body, that 
you may take our situation under consideration, and grant 
us supplies in such way and manner as to your wisdom may 
seem convenient. 

““And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will pray. 


“ROBERT ANDERSON, 
“JOHN WILLSON, 
“RosBerT McCann, 
“ROBERT HENDERSON, 
“ANDREW PICKENS.” 


In pursuance of this request, J. Simpson and J. Gilliland 
were appointed in October, 1796, and April and October, 
1797, and April, 1798, with the addition of A. Brown, at 
Carmel, to visit them ; and these supplies were probably con- 
tinued to the close of the century. 


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Vol. II. Period 1800-1810. Page 149. 
Hopewell (Keowee). 


This congregation was dependent still longer on the Pres- 
bytery for supplies. The minutes of the Presbytery show 
that Rev. Mr. Simpson was appointed twice and Rev. Mr. 
Dickson once to preach to them, in 1800. Mr. Gilliland, 
Sr., Mr. McElIhenny and Mr. Montgomery, in 1802, and 
Mr. Templeton and Mr. Gilliland, Jr., in 1804. On the 
12th of September, 1803, a call was presented from this 
church for one-half the ministerial services of the Rev. 
James McElhenny, and from the same for one-fourth the 
ministerial services of Rev. James Gilliland. Sr.; also a call 
from Carmel, heretofore associated with Hopewell (Keo- 
wee), in the same pastoral charge. Mr. Gilliland accepts 
the call so far as it respects himself; Mr. McElhenny takes it 
into consideration. A year passed, and Mr. McElhenny had 
not signified his acceptance of these calls, but Hopewell 
again presents a call for half, and Carmel for half of the 
ministerial labors of Benjamin R. Montgomery. Presby- 
tery is embarrassed, but places the calls in Mr. Montgomery’s 
hands, “not knowing but it may be the design of the people 
to obtain the services of them both.” The result was that 
Mr. Montgomery became their ordained pastor, April 4th, 
1805, Presbytery holding its spring sessions at that church. 
The ordination sermon was preached by Dr. Waddell, and 
the charge was delivered by Rev. John Simpson, the Mode- 
rator of Presbytery. Mr. Montgomery remained in this 
pastoral charge for two years, and was dismissed from it 
in September, 1807. The Rev. James McElhenny, who 
was now residing among them and preached to them half 
his time, was their pastor through the remainder of this 
decade. The church was often known in popular language 
as “The Stone Church,” the house of worship being built 
of that material in the year 1802. The great revival of 
1802 was felt here and some persons now living recollect 


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the camp fires around the church, among the memories of 
their youth. 


Vol. II. Period 1810-1820. Page 301. 
Hopewell (Keowee). 


The Presbytery of South Carolina (then the Second Pres. 
of S. C.) met at this church, on the 3d of April, 1810, on the 
7th of August, 1811, on the 6th of April, 1813. At the first 
of these meetings the Rev. Jas. McElhenny was present, for 
he was in the land of the living and was pastor of the church. 
He possessed a strong and vigorous mind, and his eloquence 
consisted of strong reasoning united with persuasive and 
touching tenderness. Mr. McElhenny was assisted in his 
pastoral labors by John D. Murphy, who was received as a 
licentiate from the Presbytery of Orange, on the 27th of 
August, 1811, and for two-thirds of whose ministerial labors 
a call was presented by the Hopewell Church. Presbytery 
granted the request, “it being understood that Mr. McEI- 
henny, the regular pastor of said church, could not labor 
among them more than one-third of his time.’ Dr. E. 
Smith and Mr. Murphy are said to have created a mill pond 
and established rice fields for their mutual benefit, which 
originated a malarial fever in the summer and fall of 1812. 
Of this fever Mr. Murphy, who was the son-in-law of Mr. 
McElhenny, died, and he soon followed him to the grave. 
Mr. McElhenny died on the 4th of October, 1812. The 
Rev. Thomas Price, from James Island, preached a funeral 
sermon occasioned by their death, and it was among the 
reminiscences of Rev. David Humphreys, so long the be- 
loved pastor of Good Hope and Roberts, that Mr. Price 
came up to Rev. Andrew Brown’s while he, Humphreys, 
was there at school, to have him examine the manuscript, 
a copy having been requested for publication, and that while 
there he assisted Mr. Brown at a communion season at the 
Bethel Church, greatly to the edification of the people there 


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assembled. The following is the inscription in the grave- 
yard at the “Stone Church,” in memory of Mr. McElhenny : 


“Sacred 
To the Memory of 


the 
Rev. JAMES MCELHENNY 


Senior pastor of 
the 
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF 
HopPpEWELL IN PENDLETON DISTRICT, 
Who died October Ist, 1812, 
Aged 44 years. 


“Greatly lamented by his friends, who knew 

His generous worth. His flesh returns to dust! 
His spirit ascends to prove religion true, 

And wait the resurrection of the just!” 

Hopewell now became dependent upon occasional sup- 
plies from Presbytery. In the spring of 1813, Rev. John 
B. Kennedy and Hugh Dickson were appointed to admin- 
ister the Lord’s Supper the ensuing summer. In the spring 
of 1816, Carmel and Hopewell petition that James Hill- 
house may be permitted to officiate as a stated supply be- 
tween the two congregations till the next stated sessions, 
and their request is granted. This results in a call extended 
to him through the Presbytery, in November, from Hope- 
well, for two-thirds of his time, which he accepted. An 
intermediate session was held at Hopewell (Keowee) on the 
23d of April, at which Mr. Hillhouse was ordained and in- 
stalled, Rev. Richard B. Cater preaching the sermon from 
2d Tim. ii. 15, and Wm. H. Barr delivering the charge to 
the newly ordained pastor and people. During the pasto- 
rate of Mr. Hillhouse, the Female Religious Tract Society 
of Pendleton sent its contributions to Presbytery and re- 
ceived its thanks for their generous donation. 


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Vol. II. Period 1820-1830. Page 397. 
Hopewell (Keowee). 


Popularly known as the “Stone Church.”’ At the close 
of the preceding decade, we found this church and Carmel 
under the pastoral charge of the Rev. James Hillhouse. 
They are united as if one joint charge in the statistical tables 
of 1825. Yet the pastoral relation with Mr. Hillhouse was 
terminated by act of Presbytery, October 5th, 1822, and 
the church petitions for supplies, and the licentiates are di- 
rected to supply this and certain other churches. About 
that time, on the 6th of October, 1825, the Presbytery of 
South Carolina met at this church. On the 8th of March, . 
1827, Hopewell and Carmel churches both petition for sup- 
plies, and supplies are granted. The Rev. Aaron Foster, 
in 1828 and onward, alternated between this church and 
Willington. He was a native of New Hampshire, a gradu- 
ate of Andover Dartmouth College and Seminary. Other 
information respecting this church we do not have. Hope- 
well (Keowee) and Carmel are represented as having a 
membership as united in 1825, of 115 members; Hopewell 
in 1826 and 1828 as having 59 members, and in 1829 as 
having the same. 

_ Pendleton Village-—Preaching seems to have been trans- 
ferred to this village within this period. 


Vol. II. Period 1830-1840. Page 552. 
Hopewell (Keowee) and Pendleton. 


The Rev. Aaron Foster is believed to have served this 
church a portion of the time, till 1832, when he returned to 
the North. He is set down in the statistical tables as its 
pastor from 1829 to 1831, during which time the member- 
ship rose from fifty-nine to sixty-eight. -In 1832 the church 
is reported as vacant, but as having received fifty on exami- 
nation and three by certificate, and as having a membership 


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of one hundred and nineteen. It had shared, doubtless, in 
the revival of that period. The next year Rev. Richard 
B. Cater was stated supply; the additions on examination 
were ninety, the whole number of communicants two hun- 
dred and nine. 

In 1834, twenty-seven were added on examination, and 
the whole number was one hundred and ninety-one. The 
next year the whole number of communicants was two hun- 
dred and nine, which was retained in 1836. Mr. Cater was 
succeeded, in 1837, by Rev. Anthony Ross. The communi- 
cants continued the same till 1840, when they were one hun- 
dred and eighty-two in number. 


Vol. II. Period 1840-1850. Page 740. 


Hopewell (Keowee) and Pendleton. 


The Rev. Anthony W. Ross continued the pastor of this 
church until 1851. The membership of the church, which 
was 209 in 1837-’38, was 182 in 1840, 88 in 1845 and 76 
through the remainder of the decade. Early in the next de- 
cade, T. L. McBryde, D. D., became their minister, who 
died April the 15th, 1863. The Synod of South Carolina 
thus notices his death : . 

The Rev. Thomas Livingston McBryde was born of 
Scotch-Irish parents, Feb. 25th, 1817, in Abbeville District, 
S. C. Professed religion at the age of fifteen in the Pres- 
byterian Church, Hamburg, S. C. 

Having duly entered Franklin College, Athens, Ga., he 
graduated in his twentieth year. He studied theology in 
Columbia, and was licensed by Harmony Presbytery, in 
April, 1839. He was ordained a missionary to China, De- 
cember, 1839, by Charleston Presbytery, and sailed for 
Singapore, March, 1840. His health failing, he returned in 
1843. In 1846 he was installed pastor of Providence and 
Rocky River Churches, Abbeville District. His health again 
seriously failing, and having received a call from Hopewell 


100 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


Church, Pendleton, he accepted this call to a field in a pure 
and bracing climate, in which he labored until his decease, 
April 25th, 1863, having received from Erskine College the 
degree of Doctor of Divinity. 

A living faith in Jesus was the principle in the character 
of our brother. To an eminent degree he walked by faith 
and not by sight. For many years he possessed an habitual 
certainty as to the existence of that city with foundations 
whose builder and maker is God. He had an assurance of 
his title through Christ, to an eternal abode in heaven. He 
could say : “We know that if the earthly house of this taber- 
nacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house 
not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” He believed 
that God, who by a covenant had secured his eternal happi- 
ness, would secure temporal provisions. Hence, he took 
little thought for the present life, pursuing a course, which 
to the view of unbelief appeared quite reckless. But his 
reliance on Providence was not disappointed, and God, 
through his people, took care of his widow and orphans. Re- 
ceiving an adequate support from the church, he unresery- 
edly devoted himself to ministerial duties as a ruler in God’s 
house—as a preacher of the gospel, as a shepherd watching 
over, guiding and comforting his people. To perpetuate 
his blessed memory we place this brief memorial on the re- 
cords of the Synod of South Carolina. 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 101 


“THE OLD STONE MEETING-HOUSE.”* 
(Copied from a Scrap-book loaned by Miss Eliza Pickens, 
Pendleton, S. C.) 


We learn from the record that “the first house of worship 
was erected in 1790, of logs, about 80 rods east of the late 
Ezekiel Pickens’ dwelling, on the north side of the road. 
The spot is now grown over with trees.”” The growth of 
the congregation rendered a larger and more commodious 
house of worship necessary, and accordingly about the year 
1797, the foundation of “The Old Stone Meeting-House” 
was laid. It is a commodious stone building and will stand 
as an enduring monument of the workmanship of John 
Rusk, father of the late Senator Rusk. It was built by 
subscription and finished in the year 1802. From the Ses- 
sion Book we learn that the principal contributors were Gen. 
Pickens, Gen. Anderson, Geo. Reese, Wm. Steele, Capt. 
McGriffin, Hardy Owens, Mr. Whitner, Mr. Calhoun and 
Gen. Earle; the seats and pulpit were furnished by Gen. 
Pickens individually. Gen. Andrew Pickens, Gen. Robert 
Anderson, and Major Dickson were chosen Elders when the 
church was organized. 

Entering the church yard and turning to the left, we come 
to the grave of the Rev. Thos. Reese, deceased. The Ses- 
sions Book informs us that Dr. Reese was installed pastor 
of the Society in 1792; having graduated at Princeton Col- 
lege in 1768. He pursued his studies with an ardour that 
injured his health and abridged his life. He died in 1796, 
at the age of 54 years, leaving behind him the character of 
a distinguished scholar, an able preacher, and an eminently 
pious man. It was our intention to have dwelt at length 
upon the character and services of Dr. Reese, but circum- 
stances will not permit. Indeed, after reading the spirited 
sketch of his life and labors, drawn by Dr. Witherspoon, 
of Alabama, and published in the Sixth Column No. 1, of 


* Pendleton Messenger, date of issue unknown. 


€ 


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the Southern Presbyterian Review, we feel that it is unne- 
cessary. 

Dr. Reese is an historical character; was an ardent pa- 
triot, wrote and spoke for American Independence, and 
those who would know more of him can consult Ramsey’s 
History, Foote’s Sketches of North Carolina, and Chancel- 
lor James’ Life of Marion. The latter, speaking of Dr. 
Reese, says: “In contemplating the meek and unobtrusive 
manners of this eminent servant of the Most High, we do 
not hesitate to say he was a pattern of Christian Charity, 
as nearly resembling the Divine Master as has been exhibited 
by any of his contemporary fellow-laborers in the Gospel.” 
A fit tribute to a truly great and good man. 

Beneath a cluster of cedars reposes all that is mortal of 
John Miller, printer. We lingered long by his grave, for 
his eventful life afforded us food for meditation. If we 
could have seen and conversed with his descendants, who 
live in this vicinity, we could have given a fuller sketch of 
him. Mr. Miller was the oldest typo in the State. For the 
publication of Junius’ letters—the author of those papers he 
well knew—he was expelled from England. He came to 
South Carolina; probably worked * * * 
removed to Pendleton, using the press which Gen. Greene 
had in his campaigns; he did job work, until he commenced 
the publication of the “Pendleton Messenger,” the second 
paper established in this State. 

The world has speculated much as to the authorship of 
Junius, but John Miller carried the secret to his grave at 
the “Old Stone Meeting House,” and has left no information 
as to the name of the author. 

Passing from the grave of Mr. Miller, we come to that 
of Dr. F. W. Symmes, his successor in the publication of 
the “Messenger.” Dr. Symmes was born near this town, 
was a class-mate of Col. B. F. Sloan, at the classical school 
of the Rev. Dr. Reese; settled first in the fork of the Fork of 
Seneca and Tugaloo Rivers, thence removed to Elberton, 


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Georgia, and finally settled at this place. About the year 
1826, he assumed the editorial chair of the “Messenger,” 
which he filled with signal ability until the year 1848, when 
the weight of years and the burden of an extensive practice 
induced him to give it up. Dr. Symmes was modest and 
retiring in his manners, but a most social gentleman when 
once acquainted with; he enjoyed largely the confidence of 
his fellow-citizens, was often elected a member of the Legis- 
lature, and once or twice to the State Convention. Pos- 
sessed of a strong intellect, he filled well every position in 
life, and died at an advanced age, lamented by all. 


Entering a brick enclosure, we stand by the graves of 
Gen. and Gov. Pickens, father and son. Modest inscrip- 
tions on marble mark the spot, and allude to the worth of 
each. Gen. Andrew Pickens was a remarkable man, and to 
him we are deeply indebted for our liberties. A truer pa- 
triot, nor more intrepid soldier than he, never trod our soil; 
and there are few more brilliant Revolutionary characters. 
Gen. Pickens very early settled in Pendleton District, en- 
tered a body of fine land on Seneca River, which is seen by 
the traveller as he crosses at Cherry’s Bridge, and resided 
there until late in life. The white population was at that 
time sparse in the interior of Carolina, and great diversity 
of opinion existed as to the propriety of resisting the power 
of Great Britain. A belief in the perfection of the ancient 
system was strong; and the spirit of opposition to the new 
Government regarded, if not unjustifiable, at least, rash and 
inconsiderate, and leading to consequences the most disas- 
trots to the peace and happiness of the community. The 
exertions of the brave Colonel, Col. Pickens, to counteract 
those fallacious principles, and to adopt opinions similar to 
those which animated the bosom of every true friend of his 
country, were indefatigable. He was constantly on the 
alert. Vigilance, indeed, became indispensable; for, al- 
though the Tories would oftentimes show a disposition to 
temporize, yet it was evident from the murmurings and 


104 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


secret caballing that they only waited a favorable opportu- 
nity to declare their sentiments, and to engage in open and 
decided hostility. No sooner, therefore, did the British ap- 
pear in force in the South, than their smothered resentment 
burst into flame. Several hundreds of them embodied, and 
committing every species of depredation on their route, 
marched forward to join the royal army in Georgia. Col. 
Pickens, apprized of their movements and irritated by their 
rapacity, pursued them with rapid steps, and overtaking 
them at Kettle Creek, attacked them so vigorously, that in 
less than an hour forty of their number, and among them 
their leader, Col. Boyd, were killed, and the rest so com- 
pletely dispersed as to leave no apprehension of further 
trouble. 

After Pickens had routed the enemy and taken several 
prisoners, among whom was Col. Boyd, then mortally 
wounded, he asked the dying man for leave to pray for him, 
which the latter, being an infidel, scorned, saying, “I want 
none of a d—d rebel’s prayers.’’ Col. Pickens then asked 
him if he could do anything for him? He replied, “Keep 
my silver spurs and deliver them to my wife.” 


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OLD STONE CHURCH.* 


(Written for the Keowee Courier.) 


No more sacred landmark stands in the upper part of 
South Carolina than the Old Stone Church and its burying 
ground, near Fort Hill, Oconee County. 

The whiteness of the inside walls of the old church tells 
that the hand of youth has swept the cobwebs of age from 
the yellowed plaster, that the Gospel in its fresher language 
may be reflected from newer planes to the ears of later day 
hearers. But the exterior walls bear the marks of the sea- 
sons that have come and gone through many decades since 
the old structure was completed. 

There, in the vinegrown cemetery, the ashes of many of 
the brave old patriots and pioneers of upper Carolina, and 
mothers and grand-mothers of some of the senior intellect- 
ual giants of our own day, have long since commingled 
with the earth. There, on the old worn and weather-stained 
tablets, we find the names of family trees whose branches 
are spread out far and wide over many States of the Union, 
such names as Pickens, Whitner, Maxwell, Lewis, Sloan, 
Calhoun, Benson, Kilpatrick, Adger, Miller, Dickson, and 
many others. I laid down among the tall weeds which sur- 
rounded a tomb that had borne the rains and storms and 
snows of nearly an hundred years. So darkly stained was 
the once white tablet, that I could only make out the name, 
Charles Storey, and the date of his death, which was in 
1812. I lay there, with closed eyes, and wandered back. in 
imagination, to the days when the world was not so prone 
to selfishness. 

Near one side of the little yard, and whose head and foot 
are marked by two large pines, is the grave of Bynum, who 
fell in the memorable duel whose surviving participant was 
Hon. B. F. Perry. Nothing stands to mark the spot save 
the two pines. 


* Keowee Courier, Sept. 6, 1894. 


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From the column which marks the resting place of E. B. 
Benson, who died March 4th, 1860, I made a note of the 
following beautiful quotation : 


“The last end of the good man is peace, how calm his exit, 
His summoned breath went forth as peacefully 
As folds the spent rose when the day is done.” 

Within a stone wall inclosure lie the remains of the elder 
members of the Pickens family. A simple tablet, planted 
deeply in the ground, marks the spot where all that was 
mortal of Gen. Andrew Pickens was laid to rest seventy-seven 
years ago. In these few simple words is couched the his- 
tory of a great soul, an indomitable will and untiring body: 
“Born September 13, 1739; died August 11, 1817. He was 
a Christian, patriot and soldier. His character and actions 
are incorporated with the history of his country.” 

Nearby the Pickens plot I found the grave of Joseph 
Whitner. The tablet still standing was so darkly stained 
that I could read its lettering only by the touch of the fingers. 
With some little difficulty, I made a note of the epitaph, 
which I give in full: “Sacred to the memory of Joseph 
Whitner, a native of Germany, who died of apoplexy, April 
12, 1824, aged 67 years. Left, by the death of his parents, 
an orphan child in a strange land, wholly destitute of prop- 
erty and kindred, he was mercifully preserved to bear a part 
in the struggle of his adopted State for Independence, to live 
many years in the enjoyment of the blessing of liberty, an 
example of probity and sincerity in his relations as citizen, 
friend, father and husband and to die after. twenty years 
in the Presbyterian Church, in the faith of pardon through 
the blood of the Redeemer. His children have placed this 
tablet over his grave.” 

After wandering for two hours among the many tombs in 
the little yard, I turned away, with the voice of my heart 
bidding a reverent farewell to the peacefully sleeping pio- 
neers of the ancient and sacred city.—C. (signed.) 


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THE OLD STONE CHURCH. 
Anp Its HonorED DEAaD—THE Historic Spot REVISITED. 
By W. A. DicxKson. 


Twenty-six years ago this month I made my first visit 
to the Old Stone Church. I wrote a little account of it, 
which was my second contribution to the newspapers. I 
went back there again yesterday for the first time in several 
years. ‘The aspect of to-day presents a striking contrast to 
that of a quarter of a century ago. ‘Then the plank fence 
that enclosed the graveyard was fast rotting out of sight; 
whatever shrubbery there was had long since run wild, and 
the brier and Cherokee rose vied with each other in the race 
for pre-emption ; indeed, the air of neglect and forgetfulness 
which hung the scene as a pall was more than ethereal—one 
could cut it with his knife. 

Only now and then did people, upon whom the spot had 
claims, slip in and deposit their dead with as little ado as 
possible and hurry away with a sense of having taken an 
unfair advantage in leaving loved ones to sleep the long 
sleep amid surroundings so gruesome, so uncanny, that they 
were scary even in the daytime. 

The Stone Church had so nearly gone out of fashion as 
a place of sepulture that the lone pilgrim, as he picked his 
way among tombs and brambles, was apt to recoil with a 
start of surprise if he stumbled upon a new made grave or 
flushed the graveyard rabbit. But a reaction came, and 
to-day it is one of the best kept cemeteries anywhere in the 
country. The thicket of cedars that had. grown up over 
the first graves made there a hundred years ago has been 
cut away; in fact, the entire plot of two acres has been com- 
pletely denuded of all trees and shrubbery except a pretty 
spruce poplar in the center of the grounds and some ever- 
greens in the southeast corner. 

The two big pines that grew at the head and foot of the 
duellist Bynum’s grave—who ever wrote anything about the 

8—O. S.C. 


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Stone Church without speaking of Bynum’s grave—have 
been cut down. It looks like a pity that the only markers 
at the grave of the brilliant young lawyer and journalist 
who, a crack shot and squaring everything by the code- 
duello, was himself caught in the trap he set for Perry, 
should be obliterated. 

It has not been many years since the revival of interest 
in the Old Stone Church graveyard came, and I suspect that 
but for the establishment of Clemson College at Fort Hill, 
a mile or so away, itself a place of rich historic interest and 
association, which was fast passing into the realm of forget- 
fulness, the Old Stone Church graveyard, a veritable West- 
minster Abbey for upper South Carolina, would by to-day 
have settled down into a state of complete innocuous desue- 
tude. Some months ago the graveyard was enclosed with 
a granite fence, and although it is fashionable again to bury 
the dead there, not much room is left, and it will not be 
long, if indeed that time has not already come, when Dick, 
Tom, and Harry will be crowded out. 

Many important personages lie there. Gen. Andrew 
Pickens, the terror of the British and Tories in the time of 
the Revolution, and of the Cherokee Indians; his son, who 
was at the head of a regiment of South Carolina troops in 
the war of 1812, and who in the year 1816 was elected Gover- 
nor of South Carolina, a distinguished honor in that day of 
chivalric men and chivalric times; Thomas Reese, the first 
pastor of the church, a man of high scholarship, and the first 
preacher in South Carolina to receive the degree of doctor 
of divinity; Col. Robert Anderson, a Revolutionary patriot 
of celebrity and one of the founders and pillars of the Stone 
Church, “Hopewell on the Keowee,” and whose name An- 
derson County bears; two Confederate Colonels, the gallant 
Whit Kilpatrick, who fell at the head of the First South 
Carolina in the night fight at Lookout Mountain, October 
28, 1868, and James W. Livingston, who going into the 
war as Captain of Company I, Orr’s Rifle Regiment, rose 


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by promotion to the Colonelcy of his regiment, and who, 
subsequent to the war, represented Oconee County in the 
State Senate with credit; Oliver M. Doyle, who, going into 
the Civil War as Captain of a company in the Second South 
Carolina Rifles, was transferred to the medical department 
and was made regimental Surgeon, and who, when he died, 
was President of the Stone Church and Cemetery Associa- 
tion; Jas. M. McElroy, an ornament in the medical profes- 
sion and for some time a Representative of Pickens District 
in the General Assembly ; William Davis Steele, for several 
years Ordinary of Pickens District, and at the time of his 
death a member of the General Assembly of the State; 
George R. Cherry, a successful planter, and for one or more 
terms a Representative of Oconee in the State Legislature; 
Andrew F. Lewis, who in the old regime and his prime, 
was immensely popular and represented his people in the 
General Assembly repeatedly. These all, and many others 
of no less note lie here, and it is a credit to their descendants 
and others who have a pride in the past as well as the pres- 
ent that the old graveyard is being cared for and that befit- 
ting monuments are being piled over the ashes of its dead — 
W. A. Dickson, in Anderson Mail. 


Colonel Robert Anderson’s remains were not buried in the Old Stone 
Church Cemetery, but in a private burying ground on his plantation on 
Seneca River.—(Note by the Editor.) 


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OLD STONE CHURCH AND CEMETERY.* 


AppreEss oF Rev. D. E. Frierson, oF ANDERSON, S. C., 
DELIVERED BEFORE THE OLD STONE CHURCH AND 
CEMETERY ASSOCIATION, ON OCTOBER 11, 1894. 


(Published by authority of the Old Stone Church and Ceme- 
tery Association in the Keowee Courier. ) 


- My Brethren: We are standing to-day on a spot made 
venerable by yonder cemetery, by this building, and by the 
memory of ancestors whose worth and deeds we would not 
willingly let die. Let us endeavor to record, from the frag- 
ments of history yet remaining to us, another epitaph over 
this depository of the departed. 

On October 13th, 1789, one hundred and five years ago, 
the Old Presbytery of South Carolina, then embracing the 
whole State, was appealed to by “a people on Seneca” to 
be taken under the care of the Presbytery and obtain sup- 
plies of preaching. This request was granted and the Rey. 
John Simpson, a native of New Jersey, and graduate of 
Princeton College, was appointed to preach to them one 
Sabbath, to Roberts one, and to Good Hope, then called 
Little Generostee, one Sabbath. This “People on Seneca” 
became an organization, according to a brief manuscript of 
Rey. Thos. Reese, D. D., the same year, and received the 
name of Hopewell-Keowee. The name of Hopewell was 
taken from the Treaty of Hopewell, made with the Indians 
some years before, at the residence of Gen. Andrew Pickens, 
which was called by the same name. It received the dis- 
tinctive title “Keowee” from the stream making a branch 
of the Seneca. i 

In the same year this church united with Carmel, then 
called Richmond, in a call to Rev. John Simpson, who de- 
clined the invitation. Among the members of this church 
were some wealthy names, among whom were Gen. Andrew 


* Keowee Courier, Walhalla, S. C., October 25, 1894. 


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Pickens, a native of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Col. 
Robert Anderson, both of whom removed from Abbeville 
District, and were men of great influence in the State. The 
present Counties of Anderson, Pickens and Oconee were 
then called Pendleton, a section of country ceded some years 
before by the Chickasaws, Choctaws, Cherokees and Creeks, 
assembled in four different camps at the residence of Gen. 
Pickens. This section of the State, on account of its fer- 
tility and varied resources, drew settlers from different 
quarters. After the Treaty of Hopewell, which was con- 
cluded in 1785, two years after the peace of 1783, concluded 
between the belligerent powers of the Old Revolution, it was 
found, by government census, to contain 9,500 persons. 

Gen. Pickens, when a young man, was driven (1761) 
with a number of families from Abbeville County by an in- 
cursion and midnight massacre, perpetrated by the Cherokee 
Indians at Upper Long Cane Bridge, near the Calhoun set- 
tlement. Among the fugitive families was that of Mr. Eze- 
kiel Calhoun. They retired to Waxhaw, Lancaster, and 
Fisher’s Creek communities, in the northern borders of the 
State. It was there that Mr. Pickens was affianced to Re- 
becca Calhoun, the daughter of Ezekiel, whom he after- 
wards married. Mr. Patrick Calhoun, her brother, mar- 
ried Miss Jane Craighead, the daughter of Rev. Alexander 
Craighead, of Rock River, N. C. After Mrs. Patrick Cal- 
houn’s death, he married the daughter of Mr. Caldwell, of 
Abbeville, who became the mother of John C. Calhoun, of 
distinguished and honored memory. Messrs. Calhoun and 
DeSaussure, two eminent lawyers in Charleston, contributed 
liberally toward the support of this church, showing not only 
connection and sympathy with the Keowee people, but their 
deep interest in the promotion of religious truth. 

The church was built at first of logs, in 1791. In 1802, 
eleven years afterwards, it was built of stone and called for 
a long time the “Stone Meeting House.” ‘Meeting House” 
is the precise meaning of the word Synagogue, the time- 


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honored name of the house in which Jesus Christ preached. 
This church and Carmel remained associated, receiving occa- 
sional supplies from Revs. Simpson, Hunter, Mecklin and 
others, until in December, 1792, Rev. Thomas Reese, D. D., 
on invitation from them, and being dismissed from his 
charge at Salem Black River, Sumter County, removed into 
the bounds of this people, and became pastor of the two 
churches. He preached for them from three to four years, 
and died. His remains lie in the cemetery of this church 
with the well known epitaph upon his tomb. 

Very touching, indeed, is the petition of these two 
churches to the Presbytery, giving an account of the death 
oi their pastor and their request to have their destitution 
supplied. It is this: 

“To the Rev. Presbytery of South Carolina to sit at Naza- 
reth on the third Wednesday, of October next; the remon- 
strance and petition of the united congregations of Hope- 
well on Keowee River, and Carmel on Twenty-Three Mile 
Creek, both of the County of Pendleton and State of South 
Carolina, humbly showeth: That we are left destitute of the 
Ordinances of the Gospel in both our congregations by the 
death of the Rev. Thos. Reese, of whose labor we had shared 
in each congregation as pastor. We, therefore, make 
known our destitute condition to your Reverend Body that 
you. may take our situation under consideration and grant us 
supplies in such a way and manner as to your wisdom may 
seem convenient. And your petitioners, as in duty bound, 
will pray.” Signed. Robert Anderson, John Wilson, Robert 
McCann, Robert Henderson and Andrew Pickens. 

These men were probably the Elders in those churches. 
We understand this petition to be not only an appeal for 
the Gospel, but a very affectionate memorial of their loss 
in the death of their pastor. The petition was responded 

‘to by sending Reverends Simpson, Gilliland and Brown at 
different times. 

Dr. Reese was born in Pennsylvania in 1742. Removed 


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in childhood to Mecklenburg, N. C.; studied under Dr. 
Joseph Alexander, who then taught a classical school; en- 
tered Princeton College, then under the Presidency of Dr. 
John Witherspoon, a signer of the Declaration of Independ- 
ence; was licensed to preach the Gospel in 1773; was in- 
stalled over Salem Black River Church that year; removed 
tc Pendleton County in 1792 and died in 1796. He amassed 
a large fund of knowledge in those branches auxiliary to a 
complete theologian. He pursued his studies with a dili- 
gence and ardor rarely exceeded. He began and completed 
his admirable essay on the “Influence of Religion in Civil 
Society,’ in which he demonstrated from reason and his- 
tory that all human institutions are in their own nature, and 
have ever been found in practice, insufficient to preserve 
peace and good order without the sanctions of religion, a 
lesson for to-day. It is an able disquisition and procured 
for the author the well-merited degree of D. D. from Prince- 
ton College. His farewell sermon at Salem Black River 
Church was published and is still in the possession of his 
friends. For his powers of mind, his benevolence and his 
piety, he justly held a conspicuous place among eminent 
and good men. ‘The Presbytery of South Carolina honored 
ais talents by selecting him to repel the charges made by 
Rey. W. C. Davis, in a discourse preached before that body, 
in which Davis denounced all his fellow-Christians who 
owned slaves. The reply of Dr. Reese met the entire ap- 
probation of the Presbytery. It is an able argument. and 
greatly mortified Davis, the early advocate of abolition in 
South Carolina. ‘The appearance of Dr. Reese in the pulpit 
was graceful and dignified. His style flowing and eloquent. 
Anxious only for the salvation of souls and the glory of 
God, his flowing tears often told the feelings of his heart. 
His success in his ministerial labors evinced the presence and 
power of the Holy Spirit. Chancellor James, of South 
Carolina, speaking of Dr. Reese, says: “In contemplating 
the meek and unobtrusive manners of this eminent servant 


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of the Most High, we do not hesitate to say he was a pattern 
of Christian charity, as nearly resembling his Divine Master 
as has been exhibited by any of his contemporary laborers 
in the Gospel.” 

This church continued to receive supplies after the death 
of Dr. Reese, and the minutes of the Presbytery show that 
the Rev. Mr. Simpson was appointed to preach to them 
twice and the Rev. Mr. Dixon once during the year 1800; 
tiie Revs. Mr. Gilliland, Sr., Mr. James McElhenny and Mr. 
Montgomery during the year 1802. In September, 1803, 
a call was presented from this church for the services of 
Rey. James McElhenny, who had resigned his charge of the 
churches of John’s Island, Wadmalaw, and removed with 
his family and settled in Pendleton County, near to his 
church, where he had purchased property and had spent 
several summers. The call was held by Mr. McElhenny 
for a year or more under consideration. In the meantime 
Carmel presented a call for half and Hopewell for one-half 
the time of Rev. Benjamin R. Montgomery. Somewhat 
embarrassed, the Presbytery placed the call in Mr. Mont- 
gomery’s hands. He was installed pastor at a meeting of 
the Presbytery at his church, April, 1805. Rev. John 
Simpson was Moderator and Rev. Moses Wadell preached 
the ordination sermon. Mr. McElhenny was then living 
in the bounds of this congregation. Mr. Montgomery held 
the pastoral charge for two years and in September, 1807, 
tesigned. Mr. McElhenny, who was still living in this 
neighborhood, accepted the pastorate for one-third of his 
time, being employed in preaching elsewhere. He was as- 
sisted by his son-in-law, the Rev. John D. Murphy, a licen- 
tiate from the Presbytery of Orange. The young man was 
employed by this church for two-thirds of his time, it being 
understood that Mr. McElhenny, the regular pastor, could 
not labor among them more than one-third. 

Dr. E. Smith and Mr. Murphy are said to have made a 
mill-pond and planted rice fields for their benefit, which, in 


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the summer of 1812, generated a malarial fever. Of this 
fever Mr. Murphy died and Mr. McEthenny, his father-in- 
law, died soon after. Their funeral was preached by Rev. 
Thomas H. Price, from James Island, a copy of which was 
requested for publication. 

Rev. B. R. Montgomery, whose pastorate of this church 
was closed in 1807, was called to the church of Bethesda, 
in Camden. Prior to this call, however, we find him, from 
the very brief records of that time, teaching a male academy 
at Cambridge, Abbeville, after his retirement from Hopewell 
(Keowee). From this point we recognize him as Rev. 
Benjamin Montgomery, D. D., preaching for one-fourth of 
his time at Liberty Springs, Laurens District. Again he 
is frequently invited with others to preach at Upper Long 
Cane during this interim. From Bethesda, in Camden, 
after a short pastorate of three years, Dr. Montgomery is 
elected to the chair of Moral Philosophy and Logic in the 
State Institution in Columbia, in November, 1811. As 
Chaplain of that institution, he became the quasi pastor of 
a large congregation of outside people who attended. The 
students became anxious to form a more regular connection 
with Dr. Montgomery as pastor, held a meeting in the 
Court House on the 19th of July, 1812, of which Colonel 
Taylor was Chairman of the meeting. At that meeting an 
association was formed for religious worship, under the 
pastoral care of Dr. Montgomery, the services to be per- 
formed according to the Presbyterian or Independent forms 
of worship. No Presbyterian Church has as yet been 
erected. At that meeting Colonel Taylor, Judge Nott and 
Major Ward were appointed a committee to purchase a lot 
and build a church. The congregation had hitherto wor- 
shipped in the Chapel. In October, 1814, the Presbytery of 
Harmony met at the new church, not yet completed, and it 
is probable that a decidedly Presbyterian service was then 
determined. Dr. Montgomery continued Chaplain of the 
College, but officiated also for the church at a stipend of 


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$500, taking his student audience with him, and continued 
these services until the year 1818, when he contemplated a 
removal to Missouri. At this point we lose his track. Dr. 
Campbell tells us he died in the prime of life in one of the 
British Isles whither he had gone in pursuit of health. Dr. 
La Borde tells us that there never was a separation between 
a people and pastor more trying than his separation from 
Camden Church. He was often heard to say, “it was the 
most sorrowful day of his life’? when he left Camden. One 
who heard his farewell sermon says that it was an occasion 
never to be forgotten. ‘There was not a tearless eye in the 
church and many irrepressible bursts of sorrow testified the 
attachment between pastor and people. Dr. Leland re- 
marked that he was “capable of great eloquence.” Dr. 
Campbell remarked that the most brilliant discourse he ever 
heard was preached by Dr. Montgomery. 

Rev. James McElhenny was pastor of this church for 
two years, from 1810 to 1812, when he died of a malignant 
fever. He was born in Waxhaw, Lancaster County ; studied 
under Dr. Joseph Alexander, then teaching in Mecklenburg, 
North Carolina; studied theology under Dr. Hall, of North 
Carolina. Being licensed to preach, he was called to John’s 
Island, thence he removed to Pendleton, near Keowee, and 
died. He was buried in the cemetery of this church. with 
a touching epitaph upon his tomb. He was an eloquent 
man, with a vigorous intellect, and his preaching united 
strong reasoning with persuasive and touching tenderness. 
He was a younger brother of Dr. John McElhenny, of 
Lewisburg, West Virginia, where, through a pastorate of 
sixty years, he maintained the Presbyterian standard of 
doctrine and discipline over an extensive scope of country, 
and died at a very advanced age. 

Hopewell now became dependent upon occasional sup- 
plies. In 1813 the church was visited by Rev. John B. 
Kennedy and Rev. Hugh Dixon. In the spring of 1816 
Carmel and Hopewell united in a petition that Rev. James 


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Hillhouse be permitted to officiate as supply. A call is made 
for his pastoral services in November and in April, 1817, 
at a meeting of the Presbytery at this church his installa- 
tion is effected, Rev. Richard B. Cater preaching the ser- 
mon and Rev. Wm. H. Barr charging the pastor and people. 
On the 17th of October, 1817, a call was made for one-third 
of his time at Carmel and he was installed over that church 
in April, 1818, the Presbytery meeting at that church. Mr. 
Hillhouse emigrated to Greensboro, Alabama, in 1822, and 
died there in 1835. Rev. Dr. Nall says that, as an effective 
preacher, he has never been surpassed in the Synod of Ala- 
bama. His command of language was remarkable. His 
feelings were easily excited. He was not a student, but 
abundant in labors. His appeals to the church and the 
world were truly powerful. 


After receiving licentiate supplies for several years Hope- 
well and Carmel again petitioned the Presbytery for sup- 
plies, and in 1827 Rev. Aaron Foster is sent to alternate 
between this church and Willington. From this time on- 
ward the connection between the churches of Hopewell and 
Carmel seems to have closed. In 1828 this church had only 
fifty-nine members, and, as it would seem, by the force of 
circumstances and mutual consent, preaching was gradu- 
ally transferred to Pendleton, the village three miles east. 

As the ecclesiastical interest of Hopewell (Keowee) 
seems from this time forward to concentrate in Hopewell- 
Pendleton, it would seem to suggest the propriety of tracing 
its history somewhat farther, as it develops in the history of 
the latter. At the time of the retirement of Rev. Aaron 
Foster the separate history of this church closes. Rev. An- 
thony W. Ross, from Harmony Presbytery, and pastor of 
the church at Winnsboro, was now preaching at Carmel 
and Hopewell-Pendleton, by mutual agreement. In 1832 
we find Mr. Ross officiating as stated supply at Sandy 
Springs. The recorded history of the precise connection 
is somewhat doubtful. In that year Pendleton is reported 


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vacant. The next year the Rev. Richard B. Cater becomes 
the stated supply. 

In 1837 Mr. Cater was succeeded by Mr. Ross, who was 
at this time preaching at Carmel and still supplying Sandy 
Spring By mutual agreement he retired from Carmel and 
was succeeded there by the Rev. John L. Kennedy. Rev. 
Anthony W. Ross continued the pastor of Hopewell-Pendle- 
ton until 1851. In 1861 or 1862 he removed to Florence, 
Marion County, retiring from his active ministry, and soon 
after died in the residence of his son, Anthony. He was a 
man of fine taste, of great gentleness, of elegant composi- 
tion and unswerving piety. His remains lie in the cemetery 
of the Hopewell Church, Marion County. It is remarkable 
that his church declined in membership from 209 in 1838 
to 76 in 1845. 

Mr. Ross was succeeded in this church by the Rev. T. L. 
McBryde.- The Rev. Thomas Livingston McBryde was 
born in February, 1817, in Abbeville District, S. C. At 
the age of fifteen he professed religion in the Presbyterian 
Church of Hamburg, S. C. He graduated from Franklin 
College, Athens, Ga., studied theology in Columbia, was 
licensed by the Presbytery of Harmony in April, 1839, in 
the 22d year of his age. He was ordained a missionary 
to China by the Charleston Presbytery in December of the 
same year and sailed for Singapore, China, in March, 1840. 
His health having failed, he returned in 1843. In 1846 he 
was installed pastor of Providence and Rocky River 
Churches, Abbeville District. His health again seriously 
failed and he accepted a call to Hopewell-Pendleton, in a 
bracing climate. While here, running his pastorate, he was 
honored with the title of D. D., by Erskine College. Here 
he labored with great acceptability until his decease, in April, 
1863. | 

A little anterior to Dr. McBryde’s ministry at Pendleton 
(Keowee Church) and about the time of his embarkation 
for Singapore, a very remarkable interest was aroused in 


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South Carolina on the subject of foreign missions. It sprung 
during the decade from 1830 to 1840. It was at first an 
effort of the united Synod of South Carolina and Georgia 
to establish a mission among the aborgines of this country. 
The movement invited a visit from the Rev. William S. 
Plumer, D. D., then living in Petersburg, Va. At a meet- 
ing of the synod in Columbia in 1833, in which Dr. Plumer 
was present, the movement resulted in the formation of a 
Board of Missions auxiliary to the A. B. C. F. M. Drs. 
Leland, Smythe and Gildersleeve were appointed to draft 
a pastoral letter to the churches, setting forth the claims of 
this subject. The feeling on this subject was very much 
awakened and the General Assembly appointed the first 
Monday in January, 1824, as a day of fasting and prayer. 
The Synod of South Carolina and Georgia endorsed the 
proposition heartily. It was a moment of trembling sus- 
pense, says the pastoral letter; an influence from above evi- 
dently descended upon the whole assembly. Instantly there 
was such a gush of devout feeling, such a meeting of hearts, 
such an evident overpowering sense of the immediate 
presence of God, as we never before witnessed. Before 
this influence objections vanished, the mountains flowed 
down. All the members knelt down in prayer and rising 
upon their feet, by one united voice, adopted the missionary 
constitution, and, standing, sang the missionary hymn. 
Almost every face was bathed in tears and almost every 
frame trembled with emotion. ‘The extraordinary scene 
closed, and like the great Pentecostial meeting, diffused an 
electric influence through the land on foreign missions. The 
spirit of missions at once enthused several young men, 
among whom was George W. Boggs, who became a mem- 
ber of Carmel Church and devoted himself to the foreign 
mission work. His support was guaranteed by the Synod. 
Ordained by the Charleston Union Presbytery in March, 
1832, united in marriage to Mrs. Isabella Adger, daughter 
of William Ellison, and on the 28th of May, 1832, embarked 


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on the Black Warrior, John Endecott, Captain, for Bombay. 
John Fleetwood Lanneau, native of Charleston, was or- 
dained foreign missionary in May, 1833; John Leighton 
Wilson, of Sumter, was ordained by Harmony Presbytery 
in September of the same year; John B. Adger and James 
I,. Merrick, native of Amherst, Mass., were ordained in 
April, 1834, and John Livingston McBryde in December, 
1839. The writer was present at this latter ordination and 
witnessed the scene, with the very deepest impressions of 
,the pious devotion of Mr. McBryde, and his appropriate 
address. These most interesting movements of a past gene- 
ration and their great results in forthcoming time yet ahead 
of us, are the outcome of antecedent struggles and emotions 
felt within these walls and in the dwellings of your pious 
ancestors. Yes, we will remember the work of the Lord, 
even his wonders of old. 


Gentlemen, let not these venerable walls ever be torn 
down. ‘They stand with yonder stone tablets of the ceme- 
tery as God’s two witnesses to forthcoming generations, of 
the Revolution when Americanism struggled for a name and 
a place in the earth. Could these stones cry out from the 
wall, they would tell you of the counsels of a brave Pickens 
and a brave Anderson, of the prayers devout of warriors, 
encountering the perils of the wilderness and the perils of 
the sword for their country, their homes and their sanctuary. 
Could the stones of these walls cry out, they would tell you 
of the burning eloquence of a Simpson, a Reese and a Mc- 
Elhenny, of a Hunter, a Gilliland, a Montgomery and a 
Price. Cater, Ross, and Hillhouse would speak again as if 
from the dead. Yonder sacred tombs would burst open, 
as they shall one day, and rehearse what only a few yet 
know—the thrilling story of households, of fathers afar off 
chasing savage Indians, or on the field of battle, meeting 
the mightier foe from beyond the Atlantic; of mothers 
guarding the household; of brave boys felling the forest; 
of industrious maidens plying the arts of diligence un- 


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wearied. O! it is in the interior walks of life where woman 
lives and sheds around her the grace and love of her sex, 
that the greatest interest centers. That interior story has 
not been told. But it is to be told on the great day to come. 
Yonder they sleep with their fathers, lovers and sons, not 
famous on the page of history, but whose story is cherished 
by him who loves the meek. The learned and eloquent 
Reese sleeps yonder ; there the brave, the victorious Pickens; 
the stern, the logical but pathetic McElhenny lies there; 
Murphy, the lamented young pastor, and McBryde, the 
loved and honored missionary, rest there. Yes, yonder 
sleeps Roberson, the zealous man who brought to this spot 
the first load of stone that was to build this church, and Mr. 
Berry Benson, born September, 1789, the honored antece- 
dent of the Caters, Bensons and Harrisons. Yonder sleep 
the remains of the widow of the chaste and amiable Ross, 
whose form has mouldered to resurrection dust in the ceme- 
tery of Hopewell, Marion, now Florence County, with the 
dust of the Johnsons, Greggs and McPhersons. Beneath 
that large chiseled dome of stone lies beside the form of his 
brother the courageous young Lewis, who, during the war, 
boldly mounted a ladder to bring down from his retreat in 
a steeple or garret a deserter, and in the attempt was killed 
by the stroke of an axe and fell to the ground; and between 
those two tall pines, standing as head and foot monuments, 
lie the remains of the fated young Bynum, who fell in a 
duel with the young B. F. Perry, afterwards one of the 
Governors of South Carolina. It took place during the 
Nullification contest, about 1833. There sleep the Cherrys, 
Sidney, George and John, and Mrs. Samuel Cherry, nee 
Susan Reese, daughter of the learned pastor. And there 
John Whitner, native of Germany, the father of the late 
Joseph N. Whitner, whose piety cast a halo of sanctity 
around the judicial bench. And Richard Lewis, native of 
Albemarle County, Virginia, who died in 1831. And there 
lie the remains of John Miller, native of London, England, 


122 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


who printed Junius’s letters, those celebrated philippics, pub- 
lished in the Public Advertiser of London between the years 
of 1769 and 1772 against the English ministry and leading 
characters of that time, and containing some of the most 
effective specimens of invectives in English Literature. For 
his complicity in these powerful invectives Miller escaped 
to this country, settled here, and in this cemetery he and his 
sons, John and Crosby, lie buried. This individual and his 
brother deeded sixteen acres of land for this cemetery and 
_church. And hefe, too, sleeps John Rusk, the builder of 
this church and the father of the late United States Senator 
from Texas. And the gallant Col. F. W. Kilpatrick, 
brother of Mrs. J. W. Livingston, who in the late war fell 
mortally wounded in the arms of a friend, breathing, ere he 
expired, these tender names, “Mother!” “Willie!” the latter 
his affianced. And how much more of touching history lies 
enclosed in that famous city of the dead, time would fail 
us to tell. There they sleep till that tremendous hour when 
the “powers of Heaven shall be shaken” and the earth yield 
up her dead. 

Gentlemen and Brethren: Before we close this brief 
sketch of history that circulates around this venerable sanc- 
tuary and yonder city of the dead, let me say that there is 
another monument of the past standing here more durable 
than these walls and tablets of stone; it is the word “Keo- 
wee,” one of those original triliterals of speech that trilled 
joyfully upon the lips of tattooed warrior and black-haired 
squaw. It sounds as beautiful to-day, and has risen, with a 
thousand other names, to the high honor of our American 
classics. ‘There are no terms derived from Greek and Latin 
lore, now domesticated within our English language, that 
charm us more effectually, that sound more sweetly than 
Keowee, Enoree, Pedee, Congaree, Oconee, or those broader 
Indian generics, Waxhaw, Cheraw, Choctaw, Kennesaw, or 
those more elongated quadriliterals, Ocmulgee, Generostee, 
Altamahaw, names written with a pen of iron on our moun- 


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tains, our rivers, our lakes, our Territories and our States, 
the epitaphs of a receding race. Who would have thought 
they should have left us a heritage of literature that shall 
enrich the linguals of America down to the very end of 
time! There are no monuments of the human race so last- 
ing as the idiomatic speech of nations. Ancient Greece has 
left the world her sculpture, her Ionic and Doric styles of 
architecture, but they are not so abiding as her household 
words, woven and yet constantly weaving into our English 
vernacular in the shape of innumerable ologies. Ancient 
Rome has left the world a heritage of names and literature, 
a literature so far from going into decay it has domesticated 
itself into the very structure and habitation of the English 
tongue, clothing its household words with the eloquence and 
ornamentation of a new and ever widening vocabulary. 
Almost two-thirds of the English language to-day is a heri- 
tage from Ancient Roman speech. The oldest of Semitic 
tongues, the Hebrew, the language which tells of the birth 
of the world, the honored medium of communication from 
Heaven, that has brought us the most precious and impor- 
tant of all information, has come into our language, has 
given names to our children and enshrined itself in our 
hearts and homes in the formulas of the Jehovahs, Em- 
manuels and Amens of our prayers. There is nothing the 
English language is so proud of to-day as its heritage from 
the first written speech of the world. The younger Semitic, 
the language of the Koran, takes a share in this contribution 
and gives us the scientific and technical names of Algebra, 
Alchemy, Nadir, Cipher, Alcohol, Elixir, Magazine, and 
the latest of dying races has left us our “Keowee,” and 
much more written upon our rivers and our mountains. 
And the great English language, enriched with the treasures 
of the past, carries in it the undying monuments of the race 
and must bear down to the end of time the memorials and 
historic deeds of the whole world. 


9—O. S. C. 


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THE OLD STONE CHURCH. 

There is something in the human heart that yearns for 
sympathy for the home of the dead, where our loved ones 
are laid away, awaiting the summons at the great day of 
the final account. Impressed with these sentiments we 
could very naturally appreciate the feelings which induced 
our friends to organize themselves into an Association for 
the purpose of protecting and improving the historic bury- 
ing place in Oconee, known as the Old Stone Church. As 
well as we could decipher, the corner-stone of this edifice 
shows that it was erected in the year 1794, one hundred 
years ago. 

Seventeen acres of land were conveyed to Trustees by 
John Miller, an Englishman, who left the home of his na- 
tivity to escape trouble caused by his connection with the 
publication of the “Junius’s Letters,” for the purpose of 
erecting thereon a house of worship, known in the history 
of the country as Hopewell-Keowee. It was the pioneer 
house of worship in this section of the country. 

The building was erected by John Rusk, a skillful work- 
man in stone, and the father of Senator Rusk, of Texas. 
As the country increased in population other houses of wor- 
ship were erected. Pendleton, always the seat of learning 
and wealth, built Hopewell-Pendleton, where services were 
regularly held, and from this period the Old Stone Church 
was year by year abandoned to its lonely fate. 

In its prosperity the sainted dead of the early settlers of 
the country were laid to rest in its sacred precincts. Rev. 
Mr. Reese, the first pastor of the church, was the first to find 
rest in the old church yard, and over whose remains a mar- 
ble tablet marks the spot. Then comes the Pickenses, a 
family of renown, whose remains are enclosed by a brick 
wall. The head-stone that marks the resting place of Gen. 
Pickens is being broken and carried away by relic hunters. 
This is an act of vandalism that ought to be stopped by the 
strong arm of the law. The graves of the Whitners, Max- 


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wells, Sloans, Lewises, Pickenses, Calhouns, Bensons, Mil- 
lers, and many others, are to be found here, marked by the 
never-failing hand of love and affection. The grave of the 
fated Bynum, who fell in a duel in 1832-3, by the hand of 
the gifted Perry, is found between two large pines, one at 
the head and the other at the foot of his home of clay. The 
story that has gained credence that these pines grew since his 
burial, has been exploded. A gentleman who long resided 
near the place states that the body of Bynum was buried be- 
tween the pines, small at the time of sepulture, but are now 
of large growth and imposing. There is a sympathy be- 
tween these tall witnesses, sighing with every whirl of the 
breeze, in perfect harmony with the desolation that appa- 
rently stands around on every side. The long years gone 
by have not added to the comeliness even of the spot and the 
future bears no impress of brightness in the years to come. 


On last Thursday the Association met for the purpose of 
celebrating its first anniversary. Dr. W. B. Cherry, one of 
the landmarks of the past, is the President, and was unani- 
mously re-elected in opposition to his protestations that his 
usefulness as a presiding officer had passed away. ‘The re- 
maining officers, including the present efficient Executive 
Committee, were also re-elected. Col. B. F. Sloan, in the 
absence of Dr. McBryde, was elected to discharge the duties 
of Secretary and Treasurer, and, also, as Chairman of the 
Executive Committee to solicit members of the Association, 
and collect all funds due the Association by reason of mem- 
bership, as well as from those who are willing to aid in im- 
proving the grounds and cemetery, and protect the place 
from stock and relic hunters, or rather vandals, who have 
no respect for the dead and no sympathy for the living. 
The attendance was reasonably good, especially of the ladies, 
who are always foremost in works of love and charity. 

Dr. D. E. Frierson, of Anderson, had been invited to 
deliver a sermon on the occasion, and he was present. Rev. 
J. A. Wilson, of Seneca, opened the services by song and 


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prayer. Dr. Frierson then delivered his address, which he 
was pleased to term sermonic and historical. Much care 
and labor had been devoted by him in his research for facts 
upon which his remarks were, in the main, founded. The 
history of the church, Hopewell-Keowee, from 1788-9 to 
the period within our recollection, was full and very inter- 
esting. Altogether the address of Dr. Frierson was able 
and scholarly and is a most valuable contribution to the cur- 
rent history of this section, viewed either from a religious, 
moral or literary point of view. 

The Association adopted a resolution tendering its thanks 
to Dr. Frierson for the able and acceptable manner in which 
he had discharged his duty as orator of the day and request- 
ing a copy of the address for publication. 

The Association also decided to print in pamphlet form 
the Constitution and By-Laws of the Association and such 
* proceedings as would naturally interest the reader and con- 
tribute to the success of the laudable aims of the Association. 

It is to be hoped that a potent feeling will be awakened 
in the hearts of those who have loved ones asleep in the old 
church yard, as well as that of the public, all of whom are 
interested in the permanent improvement of the grounds, 
and the protection and beautifying the home of the dead. 
A small sum of money judiciously expended would accom- 
plish all that is desired for the present. Every one who 
has a friend or relative buried there should contribute for 
this purpose, and the public might well assist in the same 
good work to preserve intact the history and traditions 
which cluster around this interesting and instructive place 

(From “Keowee Courier,’ 1894, after the meeting at 
which this address of Dr. Frierson was delivered. ) 


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MEMORIAL ADDRESS. 


An ApvprEess DELIVERED AT THE “Oxtp Stone CHurRCH,”’ NEAR PENDLETON, 
on Memoriar Day, May 4, 1901, By WM. S. Morrison, PRoFESSOR 
oF History, CLEMSON COLLEGE. 

We have met to-day, Ladies and Gentlemen, on hallowed 
ground for a pious purpose. Suffer me, a student and 
teacher of history, Confederate Veterans, after thanking 
you for the honor done in calling me to the pleasant duty 
undertaken to express my heartfelt approval of your noble 
work, as outlined in your constitution and exemplified in the 
workings of your organization—United Confederate Vete- 
rans. 


How appropriate the name you have given your camp! 
Among the Wofford College boys, who, when Caro- 
lina called, forty years ago, laid aside books, left col- 
lege halls, took up arms, and went to the tented 
ground and field of battle, were two brothers. One gave 
his life for his country. Of him a comrade wrote home 
in a private letter: “Pendleton has had to mourn the loss 
of another one of her true and patriotic sons—Tally Simp- 
son—a noble fellow, too. He fell, while gallantly discharg- 
ing his duty, on the field where many have fallen before 
him, and many, I expect will have to follow his example.” — 
Letters of Lieutenant Richard Lewis, page 56. His name 
your camp bears. The other brother lives and serves his 
day and generation—and generations that are to follow. 
One died for the Southern Confederacy. The other, after 
service in war, in the dark days of Reconstruction, in the 
trying times of 1876, and in the Wallace House—amid the 
duties of law office and court room gives freely his best 
thought, and the earnest efforts of mature life, to the Clem- 
son Agricultural College—of whose Board of Trustees he 
has been since its organization—and still is, the honored 
Chairman. 

You have asked me, Confederate Veterans, to speak briefly 
of this church; of the soldiers of this community who served 


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in our country’s wars; and of those old warriors who are 
sleeping in this cemetery. 

On the 13th of October, 1789, when Washington had been 
less than six months President of these United States, “a 
people on Seneca” appealed to the Presbytery of South 
Carolina to be taken under its care and for “supplies of 
preaching.” Their request was granted, and Rev. John 
Simpson, a native of New Jersey and a graduate of Prince- 
ton, was sent to preach to these people, who soon organized 
as a congregation, and took the name of Hopewell. The 
name was given in honor of the home of Gen. Andrew 
Pickens, on Seneca River, near where the Blue Ridge Rail- 
road now crosses that stream, the scene of one of that 
famous officer’s treaties with the Indians—memorable 
“Treaty of Hopewell.” The name of this congregation ap- 
pears at different times in the records of Presbyterian Church 
history as Hopewell (Keowee), Hopewell on Seneca. and 
Hopewell-Pendleton. 

Robert Anderson and Andrew Pickens, officers of the 
Revolution, were two of the first Elders. 

The first building was of logs. It was put up in 1790, 
and stood a mile or two from this spot. Tradition says 
it was burned—catching from a forest fire. A few years 
later, in 1797, this building was erected, the site, nearer 
the centre of the congregation, was deeded by the Millers— 
either by John Miller—‘Printer John’—publisher of the 
“Junius’s Letters’—the pioneer newspaper man of the up- 
country of South Carolina, proprietor of “The Pendleton 
Messenger—printed on a press General Greene had used in 
camp—or by the sons of that worthy man. ‘The first load 
of stone that was to build the church was hauled to the spot 
by a Mr. Roberson—“‘a zealous man.” He and Miller are 
buried here. 

Among the most liberal contributors were Andrew Pick- 
ens, Robert Anderson, George Reese, William Steele, Cap- 
tain McGuffin, Hardy Owens, Mr. Whitner, Mr. Calhoun, 


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and General Earle. The seats and the pulpit were given by 
General Pickens individually. John Rusk, who had been 
a soldier of the Revolution, was the builder. To him was 
born, in 1802, a son, who was named in honor of the Presi- 
dent then in office, Thomas Jefferson. This son was United 
States Senator from Texas, 1846 to 1856, dying in the latter 
year. One county—and the county-seat of another—in the 
Lone Star State bear the name of this one of the South 
Carolina born leaders of the Texans. John Rusk is buried 
in this grave-yard, a rude stone—like those of which he 
built the church—appropriately marks his resting place. 

About the middle of the last century the wood-work of 
the church was destroyed by fire, again catching from burn- 
ing woods. 

In the year 1900 a substantial stone wall was built around 
the grave-yard. 

The first preaching for these people was done by Messrs. 
Simpson, Hunter, Medlin, and perhaps others as “supplies.” 
Reverend Thomas Reese, D. D., was the first pastor, and 
also the first person buried in the church-yard. His grave 
was dug before the church was built. 

Reverend Benjamin R. Montgomery, afterwards a pro- 
fessor in the South Carolina College, was the next pastor, 
serving about two years. Upon his resignation, in 1807, 
Reverend James McElhenny was called to the pastorate, 
being assisted by his son-in-law, Reverend John D. Murphy. 
Mr. McElhenny owned the place which John C. Calhoun 
afterwards made his home, changing the name from “Clergy 
Hall” to “Fort Hill,” in honor of Fort Rutledge, erected on 
the Seneca by General Williamson. Messrs. Murphy and 
McElhenny died about the same time. Both are buried 
here. The next pastor was Rev. James Hillhouse. He 
served five years and moved to Alabama in 1822, where he 
died in 1835. 

“In 1828 this church had only fifty-nine members, and 
as it would seem by the force of circumstances and mutual 


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consent, preaching was gradually transferred to the village 
of Pendleton.”—Dr. Frierson. 

A missionary to China—1840-1843—Dr. Thos. L. Mc- 
Bryde, is buried here. He was a native of Abbeville District, 
a graduate of Franklin College, now the State University, 
Athens, Georgia; a student of the Theological Seminary, 
Columbia; honored with the title of Doctor of Divinity by 
Erskine College. He died in 1863, while pastor of this con- 
gregation. ; 

Three soldiers of the Revolution—we are told—were 
buried at the old Stone Church: James A. Garvin, Andrew 
Pickens and John Rusk. 

Of Garvin we have been able to learn only this—that he 
fought for his country in both the wars with England, and 
that his grave is here. 

Mention has already been made of John Rusk, whose patri- 
otism manifested itself in warring against the enemies of his 
country and in church building. 

The life of Andrew Pickens—in its facts and’its lessons— 
furnishes material not only for one address but for a volume. 
He was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In boyhood 
he came with his parents to South Carolina, living first at the 
Waxhaws, and afterwards in Abbeville. He married Re- 
becca Calhoun, an aunt of the great statesman. He, under 
Colonel Grant, fought the Cherokees. He served without 
pay during the war of the Revolution. Both North and 
South Carolina elected him Brigadier General. He rallied 
the militia at Cowpens. He was shot down at Eutaw Springs. 
At Kettle Creek he offered to pray with the dying Tory 
leader, and when that offer was rudely and profanely refused 
by Colonel Boyd, the Christian soldier agreed to send’ to his 
widow the silver spurs of his fallen foe. 

His services in peace were no less renowned than those in 
war. He was a member of the State Legislature and of the 
State’s Constitutional Convention. He was a Congressman 
from South Carolina. An old newspaper thus instructs us: 


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“In 1794 Congress sat in Philadelphia. At that time there 
were neither railroads nor stage-coaches—all traveling was 
done on horseback. Picture then, to yourselves, a man who 
is approaching his three-score years, of martial figure and 
dignified demeanor, mounted on a spirited milk-white steed, 
of pure Andalusian breed, whip in hand, and holsters filled 
with a brace of pistols, the silver mountings of which glit- 
tered in the sunlight, a three-cornered hat, from beneath 
which grows the silvery gray hair, put smoothly back and 
tied in a queue, an undress military coat, ruffled shirt, and 
small clothes and fair top boots, with massive silver spurs. 
Following at a little distance, on a stout draft horse, is his 
African attendant, Pompey, in livery of blue, with scarlet 
facings, carrying a ponderous portmanteau with a conse- 
quential and dignified air, showing in every movement the 
pride of a body servant in his revered master. Paint this in 
your mind’s eye, and you have before you a gentleman of the 
eighteenth century, with his servant, on his way to Congress. 
Such was General Andrew Pickens as he passed through our 
village in 1794.”—Keowee Courier. 

General Pickens was appointed by President Washington, 
with General Wayne, to conquer the great northwestern 
tribes of Indians, but declined the honor. Washington in- 
vited him to Philadelphia to consult as to the best methods of 
civilizing the Southern Indians. General Pickens ran the 
line between North Carolina and Tennessee by an appoint- 
ment from President Jefferson. 

“The Legislature of South Carolina, in 1816, unanimously 
offered him the gubernatorial chair, which he respectfully 
declined from age and infirmities.” 

At his home at Tomassee, in Oconee County, in that lovely 
valley, at the foot of the beautiful mountain peak of the same 
name, where, in 1779, he had fought one of his hardest bat- 
tles with the Indians, on the 11th of August, 1817, in his 
80th year, the soldier, statesman, Christian, ‘‘fell on sleep.” 
He died suddenly, sitting in his chair, opening his mail, under 


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a cedar tree still standing. It is a singular coincidence that 
General Thomas Sumter, too, the associate of Pickens in the 
war of the Revolution, at his home in Sumter County, fifteen 
years later, died suddenly while sleeping in a chair leaning 
back against the wall. 

Here rest the mortal remains of three soldiers of our sec- 
ond war with England, the war for free-trade and sailor’s 
rights, commonly called the War of 1812—James A. Garvin, 
already referred to as a hero of the Revolution; Jesse P. 
Lewis,* over whose grave stands a handsome monument; 
and Andrew Pickens, Colonel and Governor of South Caro- 
lina, who sleeps under a marble slab. 


Andrew Pickens, the younger, son of the General of the 
same name, when a boy of five “drew the jury” of the first 
Court ever held in Abbeville District. ‘In the War of 1812, 
he did his duty to his country as a Lieutenant Colonel in the 
United States Army on the Canada frontier, and in 1814 he 
was appointed to command one of the regiments of State 
troops raised in South Carolina.” In 1817, the year of his 
father’s death and a few months after that event, he was 
elected Governor of the State. 

Here, too, rest the remains of a victim to the intense ex- 
citement of “Nullification times’”—Bynum—killed in a duel 
on the Savannah River, in the early 30’s by Benjamin F. 
Perry, himself a native of this County, afterwards “Provi- 
sional Governor” of South Carolina. Bynum’s body was 
brought here, buried in the rain, at night, the two pine pole 
hand-sticks used to carry the corpse from the wagon to the 
grave being stuck up at its head and foot, and growing to 
great pines, which stood until recently. It may not be gene- 
rally known that Bynum wrote and printed a volume of 
poems. 

So far as we can learn, no veterans of the War with 
Mexico were interred in this cemetery. John Hunter, a hero 


*I am informed by the family that Jesse P. Lewis was not a soldier in 
the war of 1812, but in the Indian War, 1815-1816—(Editor). 


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of that war, was buried at Pendleton. His relatives have a 
sword presented him by his comrades, on which is inscribed 
the battles between Vera Cruz and the City of Mexico. 

Pendleton District furnished sailors as well as soldiers. 
Shubrick, an officer of the navy, was buried in the village. 

Cornelius K. Stribling was born and raised near Pendle- 
ton, ran away from home, walked to Charleston, joined the 
navy, a boy of tender years, served on the lakes in the war 
1812 and in the Pacific squadron during the war with 
Mexico, was superintendent of the Naval Academy four 
years, rose to the rank of Rear Admiral, and was buried at 
Washington, the highest officers of the government, the 
army and the navy participating in the funeral ceremonies. 

Listen to the roll of soldiers of the Southern Confederacy 
buried at the “Old Stone Church: Alexander, J. N.; Cherry, 
J. C.; Doyle, Dr. O. R.; Frazier, John; Gantt, B. F.; Good- 
man, Wm. W.; Harris, John; Harris, Robt.; Hopkins, G.; 
Kilpatrick, Colonel; Lanier, James W.; Lewis, David; 
Lewis, Earle; Lewis, Robert; Livingstone, Colonel; Mc- 
Crary, Edmund ; McElroy, J. S.; Miller, John F. ; Rochester, 
W. C.; Sharpe, Eid. A.; Sloan, Enoch Berry; Stevens, A. C.; 
Swords, Harvey; White, Verner; Whitten, John. 

Colonel Livingstone went out as Captain of Company A, 
Orr’s Regiment, and in regular line of promotion became 
Major and Colonel. He was wounded at Gaines’s Mill. 
When shattered health forced him to return home, he sent 
two able-bodied men to the front. 

When the first call for volunteers was made, Whitner Kil- 
patrick raised a company. ‘Their services not being immedi- 
ately needed, he joined, for a time, as a private, Perrin’s 
Company of Abbeville. Later his own company and others 
from this section, under Colonel J. B .E. Sloan, fought gal- 
lantly at First Manassas and in the other battles of the open- 
ing year of the great conflict. For gallant conduct he was 
promoted to the rank of Colonel. He and his command fol- 
lowed Longstreet through the Virginia campaigns. He was 


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in every battle in which his command was engaged. After 
Longstreet’s men were sent to Tennessee, Colonel Kilpatrick 
was taken sick. Hearing at midnight that a battle was im- 
minent, he rose from his sick bed, took command of his regi- 
ment, and met his death at Wills’ Valley, in Kast Tennessee. 

He refused the comforts to which his rank entitled him and 
voluntarily suffered with his men the hardships of life in 
camp. No wonder his General, hearing of his fate, ex- 
claimed: “Sir, it feels like one-half of my heart is gone with 
the last pulsation of Kilpatrick.” 

David Sloan Lewis fought through the battle of “Seven 
Pines” and died, in the nineteenth year of his age, in a hos- 
pital at Manchester, Virginia. 

Robert and Earle Lewis were two brothers, brave soldiers, 
who yielded up their lives on Virginia soil. 

While putting fresh flowers on the graves of these whose 
places of rest are known, let us remember those 

“On whose lonely graves 

There is not even a name, 

Their coffins but their Southern Soil, 
Their shrouds Confederate gray.” 

One is William Poe, who in one of the battles of Tennessee 
had one leg shot off, the other so badly injured it had to be 
amputated. He died within the lines of the enemy, and his 
family have never been able to find his grave. Of his gallant 
conduct in Virginia, eighteen months before his death a com- 
rade had written: “Our Color-sergeant, Lawrence Smith, 
was killed, and all of his color guard, eleven in number, fell 
wounded under the old colors. Private Poe, of the Pal- 
metto Sharp-shooters, volunteered to carry the colors, and 
nobly and bravely did he do it, for at one time, when the 
regiment was reeling and staggering under the terrific fire, he 
moved to the front, waving his colors to the men, and with a 
shout and a yell, they followed him, driving the Yankees 
before them.” —(Letters Lieutenant Richard Lewis, p. 31.) 

Note.—This old flag was hanging on the pulpit. The 
speaker paused and pointed to the stains of Smith’s blood on 
the flag. 


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In musing on the death of this gallant Pendleton boy asso- 
ciation brings to mind the words Father Ryan wrote in mem- 
ory of his brother, who died under circumstances very 
similar : 

“A grave in the woods with the grass o’ergrown, 
A grave in the heart of his mother— 

His clay in the one lies lifeless and lone; 
There is not a name, there is not a stone, 
And only the voice of the winds marketh moan 
O’er the grave where never a flower is strewn, 
But his memory lives in the other.” 

Two Clemson boys are buried here—Rembert, an orphan; 
Martin, the only son of his mother and she a widow. Suita- 
ble stones mark their resting places. May we ask, good 
women, for flowers on their graves to-day? 

Young gentlemen in gray, cadets of Clemson College, the 
State of your birth, the site of your school, the device on your 
buttons, the color of your uniform—all call you toa life study 
of the life story of these Southern soldiers, these surviving 
veterans and their sleeping comrades, members of a “band of 
patriots whose valor on the field of battle, and whose forti- 
tude in the camp and in the hospital have made the name 
Confederate soldier synonymous with every element that 
goes to make a man.” 

Ought we not, my countrymen, erect in the centre of this 
cemetery a shaft of marble or stone, and inscribe on it the 
name of every soldier—of all wars—buried in this grave 
yard, and leave on it space for the names of the survivors 
who in coming years may be laid to rest in this sacred enclo- 
sure? 

Suffer me, in conclusion, to bring as my offering a wreath 
of beautiful thoughts in sweetly flowing words woven by that 
sweetest singer of the cause of our Southland—a ‘“‘cause 
though lost still just”—our poet-priest, Father Ryan: 

Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, 
Who living were true and tried for us, 
And dying sleep side by side for us; 

The martyr band 


That hallowed our land 
With the blood they shed in a tide for us? 


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Ah! fearless on many a day for us 
They stood in front of the fray for us, 
And held the foeman at bay for us; 
And tears should fall 

Fore’er o’er all 

Who fell while wearing the gray for us. 


How many a glorious name for us, 

How many a story of fame for us 

They left; would it not be a blame for us 
If their memories part 

From our land and heart, 

And a wrong for them, and shame for us? 
No, no, no, they were brave for us, 

And bright were the lives they gave for us; 


The land they struggled to save for us 
Will not forget 

Its warriors yet 

Who sleep in so many a grave for us. 


On many and many a plain for us 

Their blood poured down all in vain for us, 
Red, rich and pure, like a rain for us; 
They bleed—we weep, 

We live—they sleep, 

“All lost” the only refrain for us. 


But their memories e’er shall remain for us, 

And their names, bright names, without stain for us; 
The glory they won shall not wane for us, 

In legend and lay 

Our heroes in gray 

Shall forever live over again for us. 


—From Clemson College Chronicle, Vol. IV., Nos. 8-9, 
May-June, 1901. 


GEN. ANDREW PICKENS 


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ANDREW PICKENS. 


Andrew Pickens, of a lineage traced back through the 
centuries to that sad procession of half a million French 
Protestant refugees, crossing as best they could the guarded 
borders of France, in Louis XIVth time, exiles for liberty 
of religious opinions; for some a temporary resting place 
in Scotland; another sojourn in North of Ireland, where 
our hero’s parents were born; then the yearning for abso- 
lute liberty—“‘a State without a King,” “a Church without 
a Bishop’”—brought the Pickens family across the wide At- 
lantic to Paxton Township, Pa., where, on the 19th of Sep- 
tember, 1739, the subject of this too brief memoir first saw 
the light; while yet in early childhood his family removed to 
Augusta County, Virginia. The desire for a milder climate, 
the news of rich lands to the Southward, and about the mid- 
dle of the XVIIIth Century those long wagon trains from 
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, Southward bound, 
to occupy the rich Piedmont section of South Carolina, made 
their way. This long continued move ultimately peopled 
Upper Carolina with that stalwart and patriotic population, 
which, through five generations, has acted well its part, in 
war and peace, in Colony and State. In personality it was 
a distinct population, in type and thought—plainly dif- 
ferent from that which entered the State from the sea— 
those overland settlers were largely of what might now be 
correctly designated as “Scotch-Irish” in race, and of a re- 
ligious opinion so pronounced as to fulfill Edmund Burke’s 
description: “Their religion was a refinement on the prin- 
ciple of resistance; it was the dissidence of dissent—the pro- 
testanism of the Protestant religion!’’ They had crossed 
the ocean for expanded opportunity: for liberty of develop- 
ment, and the chance of a more rewarding work. Their 
sons after them kept their stern fidelity to this moral con- 
viction, and that frugal, hardy, courageous temper, which 
came to them easily, as an ancestral inheritance. Andrew 


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Pickens was a foremost representative man of this people, 
and his high character and patriotic achievements are indeli- 
bly inscribed in the annals of Upper South Carolina. 

The Calhoun-Pickens (1752), and other associated fami- 
lies, crossed the Upper Catawba, on their south-bound 
wagon journey, and traversed South Carolina at its greatest 
breadth, making their homes on the western border, near the 
Savannah River, at Long Cane, in what is now Abbeville 
County. A singular coincidence appears in this: after nearly 
two centuries of wanderings, a French Protestant Colony, 
coming in at Charleston, sought homes in this immediate 
vicinity, in the then wilderness of South Carolina. 


Andrew Pickens was then a boy of thirten years of age, 
with no educational advantages, his occupation, hunting, 
farm work and Indian warfare, in which all our early rural 
citizens were trained and toughened for their later life-work. 
Bred on the Indian frontier, his strong character and un- 
daunted courage, soon made him a leader of men, and we 
find him, as stated by Lossing, a Colonel at twenty-one 
years of age, in Colonel Grant’s expedition against the 
Cherokees. 

When the settlement on Long Cane was broken up and 
almost destroyed by the Cherokees, in 1761, with the dread- 
ful murders there committed, a portion of the fugitives took 
refuge in the Waxhaw Settlement, east of Catawba, in what 
is now Lancaster County. Ezekiel Calhoun escaped thither, 
bringing with him his interesting family. Young Pickens 
was also there, and became acquainted with Miss Rebecca 
Calhoun, whom he subsequently married, on 19th March, 
1765, at the home of the bride’s father, Ezekiel Calhoun, at 
Long Cane, whither the family had returned, after the In- 
dian troubles. ‘Tradition says it was the largest wedding 
party ever then assembled in Upper Carolina, and the fes- 
tivities lasted three days without intermission; the beauty of 
the bride was the theme of all tongues, and the wedding 


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was long talked of as the important event of the neighbor- 
hood in that decade. 

During the War of Independence, Mrs. Pickens’ devotion 

and fidelity to the patriot cause cheered her gallant husband 
amidst all difficulties, and made his home ever bright and 
dear, even through the blood and carnage of those terrible 
years. It would be pleasant to follow the happy couple in 
their social life, but our purpose is only to recall Andrew 
Pickens, as a citizen and soldier, during a long and distin- 
guished career. A recent writer, with graphic pen, says, 
“A beautiful and devoted wife; a cheerful fireside; peace 
and plenty about him—what more could man crave? All 
this he was soon called upon to forego, and take the field, 
fighting for what he conceived to be duty and right. In 
those peaceful times: “All good men loved the King: not 
to do so was acrime. He was the embodiment of law and 
order, the centre and source of Government, many a prayer 
was daily wafted skyward, for his weal and guidance: not 
to drink his health was treason. ‘This is a truth to be em- 
phasized, as showing what it then cost loyal men to revolt.” 
now Savannah River, was prosperous; the people had no 
grievances ; they had been protected always by Loyal troops, 
and felt no burdens of taxation. So strong was this feel- 
ing of loyalty, that many of the leading citizens opposed to 
the end the Whig cause. Forty years ago the late Mr. 
Petigru said what may well be now an accepted opinion: 
- “Tt is not true that the Tories were a horde of ruffians. 
They were conservatives, and their error was in carrying 
to excess the sentiment of loyalty which is founded in virtue. 
Their constancy embittered the contest, but did not provoke 
it. Their cause deserved to fail, but their sufferings are 
entitied to respect. Prejudice has blackened their names, 
but history will speak of them as more tenacious than ambi- 
tious, and show toward them the indulgence due to the un- 
fortunate.” 

As early as the Stamp Act troubles (1765), Andrew 

10—O. S. C. 


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Pickens was known as opposed to “taxation without repre- 
sentation,’ and so it ensued that in November, 1775, we find 
him on the patriot side at the first fight at Ninety-Six Fort, 
an event seldom or never mentioned by historians. It oc- 
curred seven months after Lexington and Concord! Eight 
months before the Declaration of Independence. Andrew 
Pickens had no personal end to serve, nor personal griev- 
ance; nor had the prosperous region in which he lived, with 
his wife and young children, but the voice of duty called 
him, and at that critical moment he flung his whole influence 
into the American cause. He was widely known all through 
the Piedmont Section for his piety and fearless bravery, and 
he turned the tide of public opinion. The moment Andrew 
Pickens took the field Upper South Carolina declared against 
George III. Men everywhere flocked to the Patriot stand- 
ard. His decision cost him much, and during seven long 
years was to cost him more. With Indians hostile in his 
rear, and British troops and Loyalists in front, his family 
exposed at all times, he went resolutely forward, with an 
approving conscience—the freedom of the Colonies his only 
aspiration. 

What Marion was in the Low Country, Sumter in the 
Middle Country, Andrew Pickens was in the Upper Coun- 
try, and when British troops had possession of the Colony 
from Charleston to the Mountains, those three leaders and 
others held the field, the active, irrepressible champions of 
Independence, and through their personal influences kept 
alive the spirit of liberty, and their names will forever shine 
out in South Carolina history with an unquenchable lustre. 

The historical writers of the country have been negli- 
gent of General Pickens’ services to the country. It is not 
possible to go into general details, but in connection with 
the Centennial of Cowpens, which this publication com- 
memorates, it is in order to show how great were his ser- 
vices in preparation for and in that decisive battle. 

When General Morgan was first detached by General 


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Greene for the special duty which culminated at Cowpens, 
his force was limited in numbers, and as soon as battle ap- 
peared imminent, reinforcements were imperatively neces- 
sary. Tono one more than to Colonel Pickens is the credit 
due for bringing help. He had made efforts, by couriers, 
summoning men for sixty miles around. Colonel Howard, 
of the Maryland Line, says: “Morgan did not decide an 
action until he was joined on the night of 16th January by 
Colonel Pickens and his followers.” Among these were 
three companies of Georgians. And adds: “I well remem- 
ber that parties were coming into the camp most of the 
night, &c.’”’ The general account of the battle is familiar 
to all readers, but it is not generally known that Colonel 
Pickens was next to General Morgan in rank, and com- 
manded in person more than half of the troops engaged in 
that action. Early in the fight the victorious British were 
pressing on, when suddenly, says Tarleton, “My men were 
seized with a sudden panic.” It was explainable, by Pick- 
ens’ and Howard’s troops pouring a deadly flank and front 
fire into them, before which they quailed. As they wavered, 
Pickens’ and Howard’s troops pressed the fight, and Wash- 
ington’s cavalry charged. Pickens and Howard, in person, 
advanced with their troops to finish the fight, and in twenty 
minutes the larger part of the British forces were in pos- 
session of the Americans. The 7ist Regiment exhibited 
for some time a countenance, and maintained their order 
to the last, but when the British Cavalry was put to flight 
by Colonel Washington, and the whole weight of the Ameri- 
can Infantry pressed upon them, resistance was vain. They 
laid down their arms, and Colonel Pickens, in person, re- 
ceived the sword of McArthur, the Commander of the 71st 
Regiment. 

Lossing, in his Field Book of the Revolution. in his ac- 
count of Cowpens, gives portraits of Morgan, Howard and 
Washington, and pictures of their medals and inscriptions, 
but no portrait of Pickens and picture of his sword is there 


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published. In scanning Lossing’s Index, not a tithe of his 
military services are recorded. The Committee has es- 
teemed it an honor to present a good likeness of General 
Pickens, and for the first time publish an accurate picture 
_ of the sword voted by Congress,* which was worn by his 
great-grand-son, Colonel S$. B. Pickens, on the military pa- 
rade at the Centennial. It was photographed from the 
original, now in the keeping of Mrs. Governor F. W. Pick- 
ens, a widow of a grand-son of the General. General Pick- 
ens never drew a cent of pay for his Revolutionary services, 
as the pay-rolls in the Comptroller’s office will prove. 
Love of country was reward enough for him. His was a 
lofty patriotism. After the war he held the first County 
Court that sat under the new laws, near Abbeville Court 
House, and his son, afterwards Governor Andrew Pickens 
(1816-'18), then a boy five years old, drew the first jury. 
He ran the line between North Carolina and ‘Tennessee; 
was also appointed to make the Treaty of Milledgville, like- 
wise at Natchez, and, indeed, almost all the treaties made 
with the Southern Indians. Peace being restored, the voice 
of his country called him to serve her in various capacities. 
He was a member of the Legislature, and afterwards of the 
Convention which formed the State Constitution; was 
elected a member under the new Constitution, until 1794, 
when he became a member of Congress, which then sat in 
Philadelphia. At that time there were neither railroads 
nor stage coaches—all travel was done on horseback. Pic- 
ture to yourself a man who was approaching his three-score 
years, of martial figure and dignified demeanor, mounted on 
a spirited milk white Andalusian steed, whip in hand, and 
hostlers filled with a brace of pistols, the silver mountings 
of which glittered in the sunlight; a three-cornered hat, 
from beneath the silvery gray hair, put smoothly back, and 
tied in a queue, and undress military coat, ruffled shirt, fair 
top boots, with handsome silver spurs; following at a little 


* “Congress to Col. Pickens, March 9th, 1781—Cowpens, January 17th.” 


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distance, on a stout draft horse, is his African attendant, 
Pompey, in livery of blue, with scarlet facings, carrying a 
portmanteau, with a consequential and dignified air, show- 
ing in every movement the pride of a body-servant to his 
revered master. Paint this in your mind’s eye, and you have 
before you a gentleman of the Eighteenth Century, with 
his servant, on his way to Congress; such was General An- 
drew Pickens, as he passed through to Philadelphia in 1794. 
Declining a re-election to Congress, he was again returned 
a member to the Legislature, in which he continued until 
i811. In 1794, determining to enjoy that serenity and 
tranquility which he had so greatly contributed in estab- 
i:shing, he retired from the busy scenes of life to his moun- 
tain home, “Tomassee.” At this place, in 1779, he fought 
the most desperate battle he ever engaged in, with the Chero- 
kees. But so completely subdued were they, and under his 
control, at this time, it was a safe and delightful retreat. 
The Indians, in their devotion to him, called him the Great 
Sky Augusta, and would bring their first offerings to him, 
adorned in the highest style of Indian costume. This place 
was peculiarly interesting to him; he devoted himself to 
domestic pleasures and pursuits, revered and beloved by all. 
His hospitable home, though remote from the more fre- 
quented parts of the State, was still the resort of numerous 
friends, relatives and guests, from a distance. Such was 
the gentle current of his latter years; still of earthly objects 
his country was prominent in his affections. He viewed 
with great interest the struggle of 1812-'15, and the causes 
which produced it, distinctly perceiving that in its conse- 
quences, the prosperity, independence and glory of his coun- 
try were deeply involved; he was alive to its various inci- 
dents. In this hour of danger, the eyes of his fellow-citi- 
zens were again turned to their tried servant. Without 
his knowledge he was again called by their spontaneous voice 
into public service. Confidence thus expressed could not 
be disregarded. He accepted a seat in the Legislature in 


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1812, and was pressed to serve as Governor, at this eventful 
erisis, which he declined. He thought such high duties 
should be left to more youthful hands. His wife, Miss Re- 
becca Calhoun, was one of the most gifted and educated 
ladies of her day, and a patriotic daughter of Revolutionary 
fame. She was born November 18th, 1745, and died De- 
cember 19th, 1814. They left five daughters and three 
sons. Of the character of General Andrew Pickens little 
need be said, for among its strongest features, were sim- 
plicity, without contrariety or change; from youth to age 
he was ever noted for a punctual performance of all the 
duties of life. He was from early life a firm believer in the 
Christian religion, and an influential member of the Presby- 
terian Church. Strong points of his character were de- 
cision and prudence, accompanied, especially in youth, with 
remarkable taciturnity. He was of middle stature, active 
and robust, and enjoyed in consequence of the natural 
strength of his constitution and his temperate and active life, 
almost uninterrupted health to the last moments of his life. 
He retained much of his strength and nearly all his mental 
vigor in perfection, and died not in consequence of the ex- 
haustion of nature, or previous sickness, for the stroke of 
death fell suddenly, and while his personal acquaintances 
were anticipating the addition of many years to his life. 
He died August 11th, 1817, at his mountain home, Tomas- 
see. He lies in the cemetery of the historic Old Stone 
Church, of which he was one of the founders. It was there. 
war-worn patriots met to worship at their “Bethel,” after 
the din of war and the fierce struggle was over, and their 
efforts blessed by victory. Their hearts filled with grati- 
tude and praise, their “aspirations winged their upward 
flight to the Throne of the living God.” 

A simple tombstone in the Cemetery of the Old Stone 
Church, on the road between Pendleton and Fort Hill, bears 
this simple inscription: ““General Andrew Pickens was born 
13th September, 1739, and died 11th August, 1817. He 


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was a Christian, a Patriot and Soldier. His character and 
actions are incorporated with the history of his country. 
Filial affection and respect raises this stone to his memory.”’ 


(From Cowpens Centennial, 1781-1881. Published by the 
Cowpens Centennial Committee, Charleston, S. C., 1896.) 


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ROBERT ANDERSON. 

General Robert Anderson, of Pendleton, South Carolina, 
was born in 1741, in what is now Augusta County, Virginia, 
on his father’s farm, on Middle River, near where the valley 
turnpike and the valley railroad now cross the river, about 
five and a half miles from Staunton, and a mile and a half 
from the historic Old Stone Church. He was the second son 
and the fifth child of John and Jane Anderson. John Ander- 
son, on the twenty-second day of May, 1740, in the Court of 
Orange County, which then included all the valley, proved 
the importation, from Ireland by way of Philadelphia, of 
himself, his wife, Jane, and his daughters, Esther, Mary and 
Margaret.~ On the first of September, of the same year, 
he was granted one of the earliest patents for lands taken in 
that section, conveying to him 270 acres of land. The chil- 
dren born to him in Virginia were: John, who went to Madi- 
son County, Kentucky, in 1778, and was a member of George 
Rogers Clarke’s immortal expedition against Vincennes; 
Robert, the subject of this sketch; Jane, who married Lieu- 
tenant Hugh Allen and afterwards William Craig, and 
whose descendants are numerous; James, who served as a 
Captain in the Revolution and afterwards removed to upper 
South Carolina, where his descendants are many; Andrew, 
who remained in Virginia and has there a large family of 
descendants, having also served as a Captain in the Revolu- 
tion; and finally William, another Revolutionary Captain, 
ancestor of a large and influential family in Kentucky. 

Robert Anderson was baptized at the Old Stone Church, 
November 15, 1741, by the Rev. John Craig. Mr. Craig 
came to the valley in 1740 and was the pastor of the Old 
Stone Church until his death in 1774. Of Robert Ander- 
son’s youth in Virginia we know nothing further, beyond his 
marriage, November 4, 1765, to Ann Thompson, daughter of 
one of the pioneers of Augusta County. His father’s will 
was made in 1779 and probated in 1787. In the former year 
the sons, James and Andrew, are still with him, and receive 


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large bequests of land, but William had in that very year 
located and taken lands in Jessamine County, Kentucky, and 
Robert was winning a military reputation as a partisan leader 
in South Carolina, where he had settled, apparently just be- 
fore the outbreak of the Revolution, on the frontier near 
Ninety-Six, in Abbeville District, alongside of his chosen 
friend and chief, Andrew Pickens. The will, previously 
mentioned, grants to the oldest son—“my beloved son, Ro- 
bert Anderson, the sum of ten pounds, Virginia Currency,” 
more as a remembrance, apparently, than for value. 


A return of the militia and volunteers on duty in the forti- 
fied camp at Ninety-Six, the nineteenth of November, 1775, 
under the command of Major Andrew Williamson, made by 
order of the Provincial Congress of South Carolina, nctes 
Company Number 2, under Captain Andrew Pickens, with 
forty men, and Company Number 12, under Captain Robert 
Anderson, with eleven men. From this time on the fortunes 
of these two men are closely identified. When, in January, 
1779, Colonel Pickens, with 500 men from the Ninety-Six 
District, attacked and dispersed Colonel Boyd’s band of 
North Carolina Loyalists on their way to Georgia, Robert 
Anderson was one of his Captains. He was with him ap- 
parently in the attack upon Stono, under General Lincoln’s 
plan of campaign, on the twentieth of June in that year, and 
shared his mortification early in July, when, the immediate 
purpose for which the militia had turned out being accom- 
plished, they were clamoring to return home to protect their 
own families, and, as General McCrady writes: “Colonel 
Pickens’ men went off ina body.”’ When, early in 1780, Sir 
Henry Clinton had bottled up General Lincoln’s army in 
Charleston, and the militia wisely refusing to enter the same 
trap, they were brought by Williamson and Pickens to hang 
upon the flank of the British reinforcing column from Sa- 
vannah and harass and impede its progress, Captain Ander- 
son was with his neighbors. Sharing their fortunes, he 
marched, under Pickens’ command and Williamson’s instruc- 


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tions, on a raid about Savannah, and after the fall of Charies- 
ton in May, was with his Colonel near Ninety-Six, when 
Williamson held his famous conference with the up-country 
leaders. Williamson’s bolder counsels for still further re- 
sistance, and for even temporary withdrawal into North 
Carolina, did not appeal to the South Carolina patriots, who 
thought of their defenseless homes. Only Governor Rut- 
ledge escaped into North Carolina. Williamson and Pick- 
ens, Charles Pinckney and Daniel Huger, came in and gave 
their paroles to the Governor. It may be assumed that Cap- 
tain Anderson went with his comrades and did likewise. 

Had the British leaders been wise and foreseeing, no more 
would have been heard of the patriot leaders, and South 
Carolina would probably have remained in the power of the 
British Government. But the shameful violation of the 
pledges made to the paroled vanquished, exhibited in planta- 
tions plundered, families insulted, and even life put in 
jeopardy, aroused the still unconquered spirit of the prostrate 
State. The unscrupulous conduct of such British leaders as 
Major Dunlap made it impossible for the up-country patriots 
longer to endure. After six months of submission they rose 
toward the end of the year 1780, under the leadership of 
Colonel Pickens, joined themselves to the larger force under 
the command of General Morgan, and on January 17, 1781, 
rendered invaluable service at the battle of Cowpens, fighting 
in the front line. General McCrady, in his History of South 
Carolina, says: “The distinguishing feature of the battle of 
Cowpens upon the American side was undoubtedly the effect- 
ive work of Pickens’ marksmen.” 

Captain Anderson was with his leader in this campaign, 
and when Colonel Pickens, for his good service at Cowpens, 
was promoted by Governor Rutledge to the rank of Brigadier 
General, Captain Anderson was promoted to that of Colonel. 
It was his regiment with which General Pickens held the line 
between Ninety-Six and Augusta, Georgia, in the spring of 
1781, and so prevented Colonel Crueger of the former post 


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from going to the assistance of Colonel Brown at Augusta. 
Later, this command, in union with that of “Light Horse 
Harry” Lee, captured Augusta, and then hanging on the out- 
skirts of the British operations against Greene, materially 
contributed to their failure to make decisive head against the 
American forces. 

When operations began again, after the heats of the sum- 
mer, in 1781, Pickens’ brigade once more in the front line did 
valiant service on the American left in the battle of Eutaw 
Springs, although victory was not to be theirs. The war in 
the South was practically over, and its decisive results were 
already being obtained by Washington’s army in another 
State. While both British and Americans in South Carolina 
rested on their arms in the winter of 1781-82, Governor Rut- 
ledge issued a call to the Brigadiers for an election for a 
Legislature, to be held at Jacksonborough, on January 18, 
1782. The delegates from the up-country were largely of- 
ficers of the patriot army, and Ninety-Six District returned 
General Pickens and Colonel Robert Anderson to the lower 
House. But already their command had gone to the North- 
western frontier, in what is now Oconee County, to chastise 
the Cherokee Indians, who had aided the British, and thirteen 
of their towns were burned. The same officers conducted a 
similar expedition in the following September against the 
Cherokees on Chattahoochee, in Georgia, as the result of 
which that tribe ceded its lands east of the river. 

The war over, Colonel Anderson settled in the newly-ac- 
quired Cherokee lands on the Seneca River, in “old Pendle- 
ton District,” in that portion which was afterwards named 
for himself, Anderson County. Here he spent the remainder 
of his days, engaged in the ordinary life of an up-country 
planter, on an estate which at the time of his death amounted 
to 2,100 acres. Of these acres, 460 were his bounty lands. 

Here he brought up his family, four daughters and one 
son; the latter bearing his own name. From this District he 
was sent to the State Legislature, and once, in 1800, he was a 


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Presidential Elector on the ticket for Thomas Jefferson and 
Aaron Burr. Toward the close of his life he was chosen 
Brigadier General of the State militia. 

His first wife, who was the mother of his children, having 
died, he was married again, after 1790, to Mrs. Samuel 
Maverick, the widow of a prominent merchant of Charleston, 
of the lineage of the founders. This second wife died in 
1803, after his daughter, Elizabeth, had been given in mar- 
riage to Mrs. Maverick’s son, Samuel. Again General An- 
derson was married—this time to Mrs. Jane Reese, formerly 
Miss Jane Harris, widow of the distinguished clergyman, 
Rev. Thomas Reese, D. D., who was the first pastor of the 
Presbyterian Church in the district around Pendleton Court 
House. General Anderson was one of the founder Elders of 
this church. 

In 1806 the third Mrs. Anderson died, and after her death, 
Robert Anderson, the younger, who had left his father’s 
home at the time of his father’s third marriage and of his 
own marriage, came back to the ancestral roof. Here Gene- 
ral Anderson died, in the very beginning of 1813, and his will 
is entered of probate on January 9th in that year. This is an 
unusual document. In minute detail he makes provision for 
the welfare of his slaves, reiterating the intention that they 
shall never be sold from the place, “unless they should turn 
out to be thieves, and unless they cannot be restrained by 
good treatment, friendly cautions, admonitions, and a merci- 
ful use of the rod of correction. If by all these means they 
cannot be reclaimed, then it is my will that they should be 
sold.” Disposing of two negroes belonging to Mrs. Reese in 
her own right when he married her, he says: “Those negroes _ 
and their increase are the legal right of myself and my heirs. 
But Mrs. Reese had children no better provided for than mine 
are. And whereas my own children are well enough off as to 
the things of this world, if they make a prudent use of what 
they have got; if not they have too much already, there- 


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fore—’’ and so he bequeaths the two negroes to Mrs. Reese’s 
heirs. 

In another place he says: “Whereas I traded for Jeffe, the 
husband of Hannah, at a considerable disadvantage, on ac- 
count of his great attachment to his wife and children, and 
although they have differed and are now apart, yet if they 
should compromise their differences, and desire to be to- 
gether, it is my will that Mr. Reese buy Jeffe from Robert, 
or Robert buy Hannah and her two children from Mr. 
eeese.”” 

He closes with these words: “And now, my blessed Re- 
deemer! do, I, with a lively faith, lay hold of thy meritorious 
Death and Sufferings, hoping to be washed clear by the pre- 
cious Blood from all my Sins. In this hope I rest and wait 
thy Call.” 

Mrs. Warren R. Davis, of Seneca, S. C., a great-grand- 
daughter of Mrs. Reese, contributes the following: “It is 
told of Mrs. Reese that when the General proposed to her 
she said, “Why, General Anderson, you surprise me very 
much ; I never thought of such a thing.’ General Anderson, 
who had much native Irish wit, replied, “O yes, Mrs. Reese, 
you have thought a great deal about it, for when Dr. Reese 
lived, you always stopped at my pew every Sunday morn- 
ing to inquire after my family ; but since his death you never 
stop; you have been quite shy of me.’”’ 


Election Manifesto Issued in 1804. 


PENDLETON District, 16th August, 1804. 

At a meeting of citizens from different quarters of this 
District, publicly assembled in the Court House, on this 
day, to consult, propose and agree on three proper persons 
to represent the said District in the State Legislature, 
GENERAL PICKENS and GENERAL ANDERSON were nomi- 
nated, and pressingly solicited to consent to serve the people 
on that occasion, if elected. A third candidate was neither 
named nor proposed. 


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General Pickens, in a short but animated and pointed ad- 
dress, very politely and obligingly declared, that if he was 
elected by the free and voluntary voice of the people, he 
would serve them. 


General Anderson, in a speech characteristically bold, 
energetic and independent, spoke as follows: 

Friends and Fellow-Citizens: When citizens are tired with 
the political services of a man, it is high time for him to 
withdraw himself from public duties; such was the appear- 
ance of things at the close of the last election, and such were 
the sentiments I was then impressed with. Political false- 
hoods cannot rest easy on the mind of any man: the time 
they are current they have their effect; but like a shadow 
they pass away: such was my idea, and such I have been 
led to believe has been the result as to myself. That I was 
previous to the last election, the subject of much political 
slander, I had reason to know and to feel. I feel, gentle- 
men, because those political scandals then in general circu- 
lation throughout the District, had a tendency to betray, 
delude and mislead many of my worthy and innocent fellow- 
citizens, and to rob me, for a time, of that confidence I had 
long held amongst them; a confidence I had earned by my 
best and honest endeavors to serve them from the first set- 
tling of the District, directed by the soundest dictates of my 
understanding, capacity and integrity; and I am perfectly 
correct in saying that every public action of my life was 
intended for the good of my country: I never had any per- 
sonal or private views of my own, abstracted from the real 
advantage of our common country. I have sought no office 
of profit for myself, family or friends. I have in no in- 
stance exalted, aggrandized, or benefited myself beyond the 
poorest of my fellow-citizens. My greatest zeal and exer- 
tions have been employed to promote the honor, credit and 
respectability of this District, and for the advancement of 
your best political interests, in common with the rest of our 
fellow-citizens. I have been its faithful guardian over the 


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political rights of the poor planter, and always struggled to 
lessen his burthens. What I say in this address I vouch 
and testify also for General Pickens, and yet our public con- 
duct, by designing men, has been reproached, and the subject 
of calumny. Perfection in war is not to be looked for or 
expected; and from my slight opportunities of acquiring 
depth in, or any extent of political knowledge, any claim on 
my part is little indeed: therefore, I make no doubt I may 
have often erred in judgment; but in being convinced of 
that error, | have been ever ready to retract; and I with 
truth assert, that under the late cloud of political defama- 
tion and slander, the rectitude of my intentions in every act 
has operated as a balsam to my mind, and that the patriotic 
regard and attachment which I have always entertained, 
possessed and exercised for the good of our common coun- 
try, has been disinterested, undissembled and sincere. I 
have no personal ambition, gentlemen, for a public life: I 
had much rather be left to enjoy a pleasant retirement at 
my own home; my services have never been offered from 
a desire to be in any public situation; but only in compliance 
with the will of the people. I had made up my mind, in 
fact, to decline it altogether, and it was with great reluctance 
I attended here on this day. It is true, I have had pressing 
solicitations made by men living in different parts of the 
District, personally, and by letters (and from men, too, I 
will always feel a pleasure to oblige), requesting me to con- 
sent that my name shall be used as a candidate; but I never 
have assented thereto until this moment. The importunity 
and applications of my fellow-citizens have prevailed over 
my own wishes: and with a respectful compliance to theirs 
I now declare, that if 1 am elected by the free, voluntary 
and uninfluenced votes of my fellow-citizens at large, that 
I will once more endeavor to serve them as well as I can. 
I will not use words of recrimination to the defamers of my 
past public conduct. Most of my fellow-citizens now know, 
or will ere long know, that their reports were untrue, con- 


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trived and circulated for electioneering purposes: but I take 
this opportunity in person, and in this public manner, to 
contradict and deny them in the whole. The report of my 
wishing to establish the Presbyterian religion, in exclusion 
of all other religious societies, was a monstrous and artful 
insinuation, fabricated to withdraw the confidence of that 
respectable body of people, the Baptists, from me. I now 
solemnly declare, gentlemen, that I would have been 
amongst the first men in the country that would have op- 
posed such a proposition. I am in principle, averse to any 
such establishment. I am for all mankind, the poor equal 
with the rich, enjoying equal rights in every respect, both 
civil and religious. Iam a friend to the free toleration of 
every sect of religious professors. I respect truly religious 
societies of every denomination, and wish them to hold, 
exercise and enjoy the same freedom, power, benefit and 
advantage, according to their different professions or instt- - 
tutions. The upright, honest and virtuous Baptist or Metho- 
dist, is valued and esteemed by me in society equal with the 
Presbyterian or Churchman. I know no difference in them 
as men, citizens, or members of society: I never have made, 
neither will I ever make, sanction or patronize any differ- 
ence or distinction either in public or private character: and 
I hope hereafter my principles and sentiments on this sub- 
ject will be correctly known and understood. After this 
address, and after this compliance with your wishes, I ex- 
pect that new rumors will be made, artful inventions and 
insinuations used, and other jealousies created to alarm your 
fears, again to confound and destroy the freedom of elec- 
tion. If this should be the case, I caution all my fellow- 
citizens to beware of them, to mark the authors, to discredit 
every malicious report, and to stamp the attempts as founded 
on electioneering craft, fraud and imposition. Gentlemen, 
as far as respects myself, I repeat, I am entirely indifferent: 
I shall be perfectly satisfied with the result of your election. 
I render you my best thanks for your confidence in me, and 


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for your polite attention. I beg leave to assure you, that 
the happiness, prosperity and respectability of the citizens 
of this District are considerations which will always embrace 
my first and greatest attention. 

(Signed) Rosert ANDERSON. 


N. B.—Permission was asked and leave given to publish 
the above address. 

At the above meeting it was resolved warmly to recom- 
mend to all the citizens of the District, not present, to unite 
and firmly support the election of General Pickens and Gene- 
ral Anderson. 


GENERAL ANDERSON’S GRAVE. 


It 1s UNMARKED AND OvERGROWN wWiTH Briars—A DisaPpoInTtMENT—A 
REPROACH. 


W. A. Dickson 1n Anderson Mail (Date Lost). 


BroyyEs, May 3.—I met with a painful disappointment 
when I journeyed the other day to Gen. Robert Anderson’s 
old home on the Seneca River, to see his grave. I had 
heard that a number of graves there were marked, but the 
only tomb-stone on the neglected and desolate spot stands 
at the grave of a traveler who was drowned there in the 
spring of 1819. Notice of this incident may be seen in an 
old file of the Pendleton Messenger, now in the possession 
of Mr. C. C. Langston, of the Intelligencer. 

There seem to be a dozen or so graves in the family bury- 
ing ground, a small unenclosed spot, overgrown with briars 
and stunted post-oak and wild cherry trees. A plantation 
fire had broken out a few days before I was there, and had 
swept the spot clean—a rebuke, as it were, to forgetful 
hands. The grave-yard, in the midst of a large cleared 
area, stands on the inner border of a semi-circular table 
land or “second bottom,” rising abruptly some ten feet above 
the big bottom low-land next the river, and is, say, three 
hundred yards north of the spot where the dwelling stands. 

11—O. S$. C. 


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Not far away is the slaves’ burying ground. Gen. Ander- 
son’s residence stands on the edge of the same elevation, 
where it closes in upon the river, and within two hundred 
yards of the stream. Fronting the house, or where it used 
to stand, for the fire-fiend devoured it soon after the war, 
is a strip of eighty acres of surpassingly rich bottom land 
which in the long ago was covered with maple trees. 

The old house stood north and south, and must have been 
sixty feet long, judging from the piles of stone and brick- 
bats where the chimneys stood.. Struggling through one 
of these piles is the old-time fig bush that hugged the ances- 
tral chimney corners. An overhanging yearling walnut 
tree had dropped its last year’s fruit among the stones and 
bricks, some of which I fished out and cracked and ate, and 
mused while my friend, Routh, entertained the man living 
in a recently constructed house in the old yard with a dis- 
cussion of seed corn, or admired the Jersey red pig penned 
up on the spot where the other chimney stood. 

Gen. Anderson settled upon the river soon after the Revo- 
lution, coming, no doubt, with his long time friend, Gen. 
Pickens, from Abbeville. He was a native of Augusta 
County, Virginia, and came from there to South Carolina 
with Andrew Pickens many years before the Revolution 
and in his young manhood. General Pickens settled on the 
east side of the Seneca, and nearly opposite General Ander- 
son, his place being known as Hopewell. They were not 
related by blood, it seems, but were kindred spirits, and 
together took the lead in establishing and building the Stone 
Church, and both served the church as Ruling Elders. 

By Joun J. HALsey, 
Lake Forest, II. 


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THE ANDERSON FAMILY. 
HitHerto UNPUBLISHED DETAILS CONCERNING MAN FoR 
Wuom ANDERSON COUNTY was NAMED. 


(From the Greenwood Journal. ) 


The Greenwood Journal has been requested to publish the 
following facts relating to the ancestry of Gen. Robert An- 
derson and Capt. James Anderson, two brothers who re- 
moved from Augusta County, Virginia, to South Carolina. 

The former, Gen. Robert Anderson, went several years 
prior to the Revolutionary War. He was an officer in that 
war, serving under Gen. Pickens in South Carolina and 
Georgia. His brother, Capt. James Anderson, served 
throughout the Revolution with the Virginia troops. He 
was Captain of a company from Augusta County, Virginia, 
and removed to South Carolina in 1786 or 1787. Their 
father, John Anderson, lived about six miles northeast of 
Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia, within two miles of the 
historic Old Stone Church, Presbyterian. He was one of its 
first Elders, and in that church his children were baptized in 
infancy. According to the church record, Robert was bap- 
tized November 15, 1742, and James March 6, 1748. 

Says the Court record of Augusta County, made at Staun- 
ton in 1740: “John Anderson and Jean, his wife, came from 
Ireland to Philadelphia, and thence on to the neighborhood 
of Staunton, in 1740, bringing their three children, Esther, 
May, Margaret, and entering fifty acres of land for each of 
the five.’ Augusta County, Virginia, was constituted about 
the year 1740, and John Anderson was a member of the first 
Commissioners’ Court of the County. The Court consisted 
of twenty members, appointed by the Governor. Of the 
three children above mentioned, Esther and Mary must have 
died in childhood. ‘The third child, Margaret, became the 
wife of Capt. Jas. Allen, the noted Indian fighter, and was 
the mother of ten children, all of whom married and reared 
large families. She has numerous descendants now living in 


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Augusta County, Virginia. The fourth child, John, died 
young. The fifth child was Robert, afterwards Gen. Ander- 
son, of South Carolina. He was married on November 6, 
1765, to Ann Thompson, of Augusta County, Virginia. He 
had three daughters and one son. His descendants in An- 
derson County are the Maxwells and in Pickens County the 
Hunters, who live at Wolf Creek. The descendants of his 
other daughter, Mrs. Maverick, have moved to other States. 
His son, Col. Robert Anderson, had a large family, and many 
of his descendants have left South Carolina. 

The next child of John Anderson was Jean (or Jane), who 
married first Hugh Allen, and after his death William Craig. 
She left three Allen and six Craig children. The seventh 
child was James. He was married on December 10, 1771, 
to Agnes Craig, of Augusta County, Virginia. In 1786 or 
1789, as previously stated, he moved to South Carolina and 
settled in what was then Pendleton District, after divided in 
half and called Pickens and Anderson, for Gen. Pickens and 
Gen. Anderson. James was the father of eleven children, 
seven daughters and four sons, all of whom are dead, and 
their children have removed to other States, with the single 
exception of the descendants of his son, Dr. William Ander- 
son. His sons, R. H. and W. Anderson, still reside at the 
old homestead, ten miles east of Anderson. His daughters, 
Mrs. S. C. McLees, Mrs. R. H. Reid and Mrs. Ann E. Tar- 
rant, all remained in South Carolina. Mrs. Eliza C. Orr 
lives in Atlanta, Mrs. O. L. Burkhead lives in Virginia, Mrs. 
Augusta V. Anderson and Miss Belle Anderson went to Ala- 
bama. Both of the latter are dead, as is also Mrs. McLees. 
The eighth child of John Anderson was Andrew. He re- 
mained in Virginia and lived and died at the old homestead. 
The ninth child was William. He remained in Virginia 
until 1784, and then removed to Kentucky. These four 
brothers, Robert, James, Andrew and William, were all of- 
ficers in the Revolutionary War. 

Mrs. O. L. BURKHEAD, 
Mount Meridian, Augusta County, Va. 


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THE ANDERSON FAMILY. 
(From Boogher’s (W. F.) Gleanings of Virginia History.) 


Page 113. The Augusta or Old Stone Church,* was the 
first to be established, in 1740, and this venerable structure 
erected more than a century and a half ago, still stands as a 
monument to the heroic men and women by whom it was 
built in days of difficulty and trial. 

Pages 114-115. Robert Anderson’s father, John Ander- 
son, was one of the first Elders of the Old Stone Church. 
Robert Anderson served in the Revolutionary Army in South 
Carolina as Colonel under General Pickens. 

Pages 312, 313, 314—AIlI1. Robert (Anderson), who was 
baptized November 15, 1741, by the Rev. John Craig at the 
Old Stone Church. He married Ann Thompson, of Augusta 
County, November 4, 1765, and removed to South Carolina a 
few years prior to the Revolution, and settled in the western 
portion of the State, near Pendleton. He first located on 
Long Cane Creek, in what is now Abbeville County; but 
after the massacre in the neighborhood of Fort Ninety-Six, 
he removed to the Waxhaws, now Lancaster County, S. C., 
and after quiet was restored about Fort Ninety-Six, returned 
to that neighborhood, finally making his permanent home 
near Pendleton, as above stated. He served with distinction 
as Colonel in the War of the Revolution under his friend and 
neighbor, General Andrew Pickens, and after the Revolu- 
tion was made General of the State militia. Huis children 
were: 1. Anne, married Dr. Wm. Hunter, issue: Dr. John, 
married Kittie Calhoun, and removed to Selma, Ala.; Wil- 
liam, married a Miss Clayton; Ann, married John Smith; 
Mary, married Rev. David Humphreys; Andrew, married— 
name of wife unknown. 2. Lydia, married Samuel Mave- 


*Is it not possible or even probable that Old Stone Church, Oconee 
County, S. C., was named for this church? This was suggested by Gen. 
Edward Anderson, of Jacksonville, Fla., one of the direct descendants 
of Gen. Robt. Anderson, to whom the compiler is indebted for the loan 
of Boogher’s book. 


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rick, issue: (1) Elizabeth, married Weyman, three children; 
Joseph, married Emily Maxwell, of Pendleton, S. C., and 
their son, Samuel, now residing in New York City; Mary, 
married Thompson, of Memphis, Tenn. (2) Lydia, mar- 
ried Wm. Van Wyck, of New York City, issue: Samuel 
Maverick, married Margaret Broyles, had two sons, He 
was a surgeon in the Civil War, and was killed in battle in 
Tennessee. Zemaly, married a New Yorker, name unknown 
—two daughters. William, married Miss Battle, daughter 
of President Battle, University of North Carolina. Au- 
gustus, of New York City, for years Judge of one of the 
Superior Courts of New York; 1898, Democratic candidate 
for Governor of New York, defeated by Theodore Roosevelt, 
now President of the United States; he was Democratic 
Mayor of New York City, and first Mayor of Greater New 
York. Lydia, married Holt, son of ex-Gov. Holt, of North 
Carolina. (3) Augustus; he removed to Texas and became 
one of the largest land and cattle owners in the world. 3. 
Elizabeth, married General Robert Maxwell, of the Revolu- 
tion; issue: John, married Elizabeth Earle; Robert, married 
Mary Earle; Anne, married Dr. Andrew Moore; Elizabeth 
(Anderson) Maxwell, married, second, a Mr. Caruth—a 
daughter, Louisa, married General James Gillam, of Green- 
wood, S.C. 4. Robert, married Maria Thomas, of Nassau, 
New Providence Island—ten children: Robert, married Mary 
Pickens, grand-daughter of General Andrew Pickens; Ed- 
ward; Edmund, Presbyterian preacher; Thomas; John; 
Julius; Wm. Henry; Ann, married Joseph Harris; Caroline, 
married Dr. Leroy Halsey, Presbyterian minister, of promi- 
nence; at his death, Professor in McCormick Theological 
Seminary of Chicago; Martha, married Samuel Pickens, 
grand-son of General Andrew Pickens, of the Revolution. 


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THE REESE FAMILY. 
Tuomas REEsE, D. D.* 


Was born in Pennsylvania, in 1742. When young he 
came with his parents to North Carolina, and commenced 
his classical studies in Mecklenburg County with the Rev. 
Dr. Joseph Alexander and Mr. Benedict, who were at the 
head of a grammar school in that county, which was then 
the only one within the distance of one hundred miles. He 
finished his education at Princeton College, and graduated 
there in 1768. After a proper course of theological studies, 
he commenced preaching, and settled in the Church of 
Salem, on Black River, in South Carolina. During a 
twenty years residence there, he pursued his studies with 
an ardor and diligence that has never been exceeded in Caro- 
lina. He amassed a large fund of useful knowledge in 
divinity, moral philosophy, and other branches of science 
auxiliary to the formation of a complete theologian. He 
there began and completed his admired essay on the influence 
of religion in civil society. He pursued his argument 
through a variety of relations,and demonstrated from reason 
and history, that all human institutions are in their own 
nature, and have ever been found in practice insufficient for 
preserving peace and order among mankind, without the 
sanctions of religion. The execution of the work would 
have been reputable to the pen of Warburton; but coming 
from the woods of Carolina, and an unknown writer, it fell 
still-born from the press in Charleston. Its fate would 
probably have been different if it had come from the east 
side of the Atlantic, and made its appearance with the name 
of some European divine. It is preserved in Cary’s Ameri- 
can Museum, and will be an honorable testimony to pos- 
terity of the literature of Carolina in 1788. It procured 
for the author the well merited degree of D. D. from Prince- 


* History of South Carolina from Its First Settlement in 1670 to the 
Year 1808, Vol. II.. by David Ramsay. M. D., pp. 505 to 507. 


162 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


ton College; which, as far as can be recollected, is the first 
instance in which that degree had ever been conferred on a 
Carolinian. Dr. Reese continued to write; but not able to 
bear the expense of publishing for public benefit, printed 
nothing further. Two of his sermons were, nevertheless, 
published, but neither by him nor for him, in the collection 
called the American Preacher. Circular letters, about the 
year 1790, were written by the editor, Mr. Austin, to the 
clergy of all denominations in the United States, requesting 
them to furnish at least two sermons annually, that a selec- 
tion might be made from time to time, and published as a 
specimen of pulpit eloquence in the United States. ‘To the 
four volumes of this miscellany, printed in New Jersey, Dr. 
Reese appears as the only contributor to the southward of 
Virginia. 

Dr. Reese pursued his studies with an intenseness that 
injured his health. For his recovery he was induced to ac- 
cept an invitation to the pastoral care of a congregation in 
Pendleton District. There he expired in 1796, leaving be- 
hind him the character of a distinguished scholar and an 
eminently pious man. 

*GrorGE REESE, fourth son of David Reese, a signer of 
the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, and Susan 
Polk, his wife, was born March 11th, 1752, in Mecklenburg 
County, North Carolina. He married Anna Story, of Sum- 
ter, S. C., January 20th, 1785. Anna Story was descended 
from the Story family of Massachusetts, to which belong 
Chief Justice Story, Julian Story, the artist, W. W. Story, 
the sculptor, and others distinguished in art and literature. 
She was the daughter of Charles Story and his second wife, 
Mary Alexander, of North Carolina. 

George Reese was a Revolutionary soldier, a Lieutenant 
under Gen. Lincoln, was in the Snow Campaign at Bean’s 
Station, Tenn. Severe exposure gave him rheumatism, 
from which he ever afterwards suffered. He was a well 


*This information was furnished by Mrs. Warren R. Davis, Seneca, S. c. 


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educated man; was fond of the classics, well acquainted with 
church history as well as that of our government and its 
principles, which he aided to establish and was always ready 
to defend. His noted bravery and nobility of character 
made him a popular officer. He was a devotedly pious man 
and, like his father, a Presbyterian Elder. He was a planter 
and reared his children on the farm; was noted for raising 
the finest wheat in the District, and at one of the fairs he 
received as a premium for the best crop of wheat a large 
handsome silver pitcher, still in the possession of the family. 
He lived to a ripe old age, and now sleeps beside his favorite 
brother, Rev. Dr. Thomas Reese, at Hopewell Cemetery. 
His grave-stone bears the following inscription: 


“Sacred to the Memory of 
George Reese, Sen. 
Who died the 11th of November, 1837, 
In the 85th year of his age. 


He was a native of North Carolina, and for the last forty 
years of his life resided in this District. 

He was an Elder in the Presbyterian Church for more 
than thirty years of his life, and adorned the profession 
which he made.” 

*CAROLINE REESE was the daughter of David Tasker 
Reese and Mary Wilson, of Sumter, S. C. Mary Wilson 
belonged to the prominent Wilson family, which has fur- 
nished so many Presbyterian ministers. Caroline Reese 
was a niece of Dr. Thomas Reese and George Reese, and 
grand-daughter of David Reese, the Mecklenburg Signer. 
She died unmarried, and is buried at Hopewell, in an un- 
marked grave. 

*EDWIN TASKER REESE was the eldest son of Rev. Dr. 
Thomas Reese and Jane Harris. She was a daughter of 
Robert Harris, Signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration of 
Independence. Edwin Tasker Reese was born March 24, 


*This information was furnished by Mrs. Warren R. Davis, Seneca, S. C. 


164 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


1774. He was educated at Princeton, graduating with the 
first honor; he afterwards read medicine, but selected teach- 
ing as a profession, in which he was eminently successful. 
He was a choice scholar and fond of the classics. It is 
stated in Ramsey’s History of South Carolina, that he taught 
the first classical school in the up-country. Dr. Edwin 
Reese never married, but lived to a ripe old age, and now 
sleeps beside his parents, at the Old Stone Church, in an 
unmarked grave. 


*SAMUEL SIDNEY CHERRY was the son of Samuel Cherry 
and Susan Polk Reese. She was the youngest daughter of 
Rey. Dr. Thomas Reese and Jane Harris. Samuel Sidney 
Cherry was born January 6th, 1814; he lived a long and 
useful life, and was especially devoted to the care of the 
church and church-yard; he never married, and is now 
buried at the Old Stone Church, in an unmarked grave. 


*This information was furnished by Mrs. Warren R. Davis, Seneca, S. C. 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 165 
JAMES McELHENNY, D. D. 


FurnisHED By Mrs. P. H. Meti, CLeMson Couece, S. C. 

The Rev. James McElhenny built the oldest part of the 
Fort Hill Mansion. It was called “Clergy Hall” because 
he and his son-in-law, the Rev. James Archibald Murphy, 
lived there together. His first wife was Miss Jane Moore, 
of York District. She died young, leaving one child, a 
daughter, named Jane. Jane McElhenny first married Rev. 
James Archibald Murphy. He died, leaving one son, viz: 
James Archibald Murphy, named for his father, married 
Dorcas Moore; he died a young man and left three children, 
one son and two daughters, viz: James Archibald Murphy, 
died unmarried. Euphemia married Stewart Starr; they 
live in Rock Hill. Eleanora married Mr. Wilson; they live 
in North Carolina. Jane McElhenny Murphy married a 
second time, her first cousin, Alfred Moore. She has a 
number of descendants, among them Mr. Ernest Moore, of 
the Lancaster bar, a grand-son. He is a son of her eldest 
son by her second marriage. Moreton K. Moore, of Bir- 
mingham, Ala., is the eldest son of her sécond son by her 
last marriage. There are others. 

Rev. James McElhenny married a second time, a widow, 
Mrs. Wilkinson, of John’s Island. She was originally a 
Miss Smith, of Charleston. By her first marriage this lady 
had one daughter, Susan Wilkinson, who married Governor 
Andrew Pickens ; her son was Governor Francis W. Pickens, 
South Carolina’s great “War Governor,’ 1861. By her 
second marriage to Rev. Mr. McElhenny Mrs. Wilkinson 
had a daughter, Emily, who married Lieutenant Hamilton 
Hayne, U.S. N.; their son was Paul Hamilton Hayne, the 
poet. ‘There were two sons, besides the daughter who mar- 
ried Lieutenant Hayne. James McElhenny, who never 
married. Moreton McElhenny married and left two 
daughters: Ada, who was very talented, but erratic. She 
went on the stage, made an unhappy marriage with a for- 
eigner and was lost at sea. Susan McElhenny was never 


married. 
These facts were kindly furnished by Mrs. Celina FE. Means. 


166 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


THOMAS LIVINGSTON McBRYDE, D. D. 


Tuomas Livincston McBrypg, D. D., was born in 
Cambridge, S. C., February 25th, 1817. Graduated from 
Franklin College, Athens, Ga., in 1836, and at the Theologi- 
cal Seminary in Columbia, S. C., 1839. He was married 
in Athens, Ga., November 24, 1839, to Miss Mary W. Mc- 
Cleskey. He was ordained in Charleston, S. C., December, 
1839, and sailed from Boston for China, March 8th, 1839. - 
In the fall of 1842 he was compelled to leave China by rea- 
son of the failure of his health. He spent the following 
year in Georgia, resting for the recovery of his health, but 
preaching occasionally, to the great delight of those who 
were privileged to hear this truly consecrated minister of 
the Gospel. In the fall of 1843, at the earnest solicitation 
of his devoted friend, Judge J. N. Whitner, he went to 
Anderson C. H., S. C., and taught a very flourishing school 
and preaching at Mt. Zion Church, in that county, for two 
years. In the fall of 1845 he accepted a call to the pastor- 
ate of Providence and Rocky River Churches, in Abbeville 
County, in the Presbytery of South Carolina. In 1850, 
having lost his voice, he repaired to the mountains of South 
Carolina, where, finding the climate well adapted to his con- 
stitution, he soon afterwards was settled as the pastor of 
Hopewell, Pendleton, in charge of which he continued till 
his death in the triumph of the Christian faith. Realizing 
his ability and special adaptation for such work he was urged 
to give some of his time, during his pastorate at Pendleton, 
to increasing the endowment of Columbia Seminary, as well 
as presenting in his tender, gentle, earnest way, the claims 
of the perishing millions in heathen lands. So deep and 
lasting was the impressions made with reference to the 
heathen, that his son, Jno. I. McBryde, a Presbyterian min- 
ister, even in this day, so long after his father’s death, every 
now and then is told by some one who in their childhood 
heard Dr. McBryde deliver some of his earnest appeals con- 


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cerning the dying millions, showing that the seed sown so 
many years ago is still bearing fruit. 

Those who knew him best regarded him as truly a Gospel 
Preacher, preaching earnestly and lovingly the old, old 
story. Modesty was the ruling trait of his character, and 
many times does the writer remember him shedding most 
bitter tears, because of a sense of failure in his efforts to 
preach, yet the Faculty of Erskine College, Due West, S. C., 
saw in him not only a worthy man, but a strong preacher of 
the Gospel, and they, therefore, conferred on him the degree 
of D. D. 

After an illness of two weeks he breathed his last, leaning 
upon the arms of his devoted friend, the Rev. C. C. Pinck- 
ney, D. D., rector of Trinity Church, in Charleston, S. C., — 
who was then living very near the home of Dr. McBryde. 
A few moments before the end came, while surrounded by 
friends and loved ones, and during a prayer offered by the 
Rev. C. C. Pinckney, D. D., the dying McBryde exclaimed 
aloud, “Brethren, I am surrounded by angels! The room 
is full of them. Glory ineffable! Bless the Lord, O my 
soul; and all that is within me, bless his Holy name.” 

The Piedmont Air Line Railroad was not built then, but 
so strong was the devotion of his friends, that one of his 
Elders, R. A. Latta, then in Asheville, drove through the 
country day and night in order to attend the funeral of his 
beloved pastor, in the Old Stone Church, near Pendleton. 
In testimony of their devotion to the pastor, the manse was 
deeded to the lone widow and a modest shaft was soon 
erected over the grave of the village pastor in the Old Stone 
Church, where many of the most honored dead of both 
Church and State were laid away. 

An humble son feels that he cannot better close this little 
tribute to his honored father than by quoting from the ser- 
mon of Rev. Jno. L. Kirkpatrick, retiring Moderator of the 
Southern General Assembly, in session in Columbia, S. C., a 
few weeks after Dr. McBryde’s death: 


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“Nor can I resist the temptation to speak in this connec- 
tion of another, whose name has within a few-days been 
added to the roll of our honored dead, one not so widely 
known by personal acquaintance as those already mentioned, 
but not less tenderly cherished of all who ever came in con- 
tact with his pure, gentle, guileless spirit—the lovely John 
among the disciples of our Lord, so modest, so self-sacri- 
ficing, so beautiful an example in his social life of the love 
traits of the Gospel, and in his public ministration, so rare 
an example of the Christian pastor according to the standard 
of the saintly Herbert, or the rule of the inspired Saul; all 
the members of his own synod now present, and many 
others, know that I must allude to the beloved McBryde. 
Who that ever knew him, but has felt that it would have 
been a loss for life not to have known him. In these days, 
when there is so much assailing our eyes and ears, so much 
thrusting itself into our very souls to engender feelings of 
anger, indignation, wrath and resentment, against our ene- 
mies from without and from within, against foreign and 
domestic oppressions, who would not feel the worth to him- 
self, to society and to the Church, of a living embodiment 
and exemplification of the sermon on the Mount, or the 12th 
of Romans? Such was McBryde, if ever we have known 
one such. His loss at any time would have been a sad be- 
reavement. As of Thornwell and Jones, whose sanctified 
spirits his has now joined in the good world on high, so I 
say of McBryde, removed in the midst of his days and of 
his usefulness, that he was taken from us when our need 
is the sorest.” By Rev. Joon T. McBryne, D. D. 


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A marble shaft marks the grave of Rev. Dr. T. L. Mc- 
Bryde. On the four sides of the shaft are the following 
inscriptions : 

(East side.) 
In memory of 
Rey. i. L:, McBryde. D: D. 
Born 
February 25th, 1817. 
Died 
April 15th, 1863. 


(West side. ) 
“A preacher of 
righteousness.” 
As a Pastor he 

beautifully exempli- 
fied all the Christian 
Virtues inculcated 
by his Lord and 
Master. In the do- 
mestic circle he was 
the devoted husband, 
the affectionate 
Father, and the ever 
sympathizing friend. 


(North side.) 
The early bloom of 
his manhood was 
dedicated to the 
Missionary field 
of China. From October, 
1852, until the close 
of his life, he was 
the faithful, beloved 
Pastor of Hopewell 
Church, Pendleton. 


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(South side.) 


“Hold fast the form 
of sound words 
which thou hast 
heard of me in 

faith and love which 

is in Christ Jesus.” 


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JOHN BAILEY ADGER, D. D. 


Rev. JoHN Battey ApceEr, D. D., was born of Scotch- 
Irish parentage, in Charleston, S. C., December 13, 1810. 
At the early age of eighteen he was graduated from Union 
College, Schenectady, N. Y., and in 1833, at Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary. The next year he was ordained by the 
Charleston Union Presbytery and went out as a foreign mis- 
sionary to the Armenians, under appointment of the Ameri- 
can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He con- 
tinued in this service for twelve years at Constantinople and 
Smyrna, until the failure of his eyes and other circumstances 
compelled his withdrawal from the foreign field. During 
his missionary service he translated into Armenian the New 
Testament, Pilgrim’s Progress, the Shorter Catechism, and 
other books, which translations are still in use among that 
people. 

After his return home, Dr. Adger engaged in work among 
the negro slaves in his native city, and founded that noble 
enterprise which afterwards, under the efficient ministry of 
Dr. John L. Girardeau, developed into the magnificent work 
of Zion Church, which was interrupted and well nigh broken 
up by the effects of the Confederate War. 

The failure of his eyes again drove Dr. Adger from this 
work, which he had espoused with ardent affection and unre- 
mitting zeal, and led to his settlement at Pendleton, where he 
devoted five years to farm life with its out-door exercise. 

Upon the withdrawal, in 1856, of Dr. Palmer from the 
Chair of Ecclesiastical History and Church Polity, in Colum- 
bia Theological Seminary, to accept the pastorate of the First 
Church, New Orleans, Dr. Adger was elected his successor. 
And now that the trouble with his eyes had been relieved by 
rest and recreation, he accepted the position, which he filled 
with zeal and ability for seventeen years. 

During his whole connection with the seminary, Dr. Adger 
retained his summer residence at Pendleton, where he de- 

120: S.C: 


172 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


lighted to spend his long vacations, and where he kept his 
family much of the time during the Civil War and the dark 
days that followed. He had thus become very closely asso- 
ciated with Hopewell Keowee Church, located in that village, 
and had often filled its pulpit and served it as stated supply 
during periods of vacancy. When, therefore, he retired from 
the Seminary in 1874 and took up again his permanent abode 
at Pendleton, he became the regular supply, and in 1879, the 
installed pastor of this church. Though sixty-nine years of 
age, he was full of energy for work, zeal in preaching the 
gospel, and delight in pastoral service; and he entered upon 
this new field of labor with much of the enthusiasm of youth. 
His labors, too, proved most acceptable, and on the part of 
both pastor and people were reluctantly terminated at the age 
of eighty-four, only because of his growing infirmities, which 
hindered his preaching. 

During this pastorate the new brick church, now used, was 
built and the old wooden structure turned over to the Colored 
Adger Memorial Church. 

Dr. Adger was heard to say he would like to be a pastor 
just to realize the sweetness of the relation betwixt pastor 
and a devoted people. This he did realize, and for sixteen 
years held a powerful influence over his people, which influ- 
ence still lives. He by his teaching drew them closer to the 
cause of Foreign Missions, as is shown by the following inci- 
dent: He preached a sermon preparatory to the collection 
for that object which was to be taken up on the next Sunday, 
when each church was assessed for an additional sum by the 
General Assembly. The sermon was one never to be forgot- 
ten, from the text Ps. 74: 20, “For the dark places of the 
earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.” With keenest 
interest he inquired of the Deacon what amount had been 
raised and was told the desired sum was more than doubled. 

There are those yet living who witnessed his adieu to the 
Synod of South Carolina, when, in view of his deafness 
excluding him from taking part in their deliberations, he 


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deemed it best to retire from their meetings, although to his 
last days he kept up an unabated interest in all their doings. 

Dr. Adger, after the close of his pastorate, lived and 
labored four years, which time he spent in severe literary 
work, despite his deafness and approaching blindess, prepar- 
ing the large volume, “My Life and Times,” which valuable 
book he had nearly completed when, January 3d, 1899, the 
Lord called him to rest from his labors and leave his works to 
follow him. 

By Miss Susan B. ADGER, 
Pendleton, S. C. 


174 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


LEMANT AND WALKER FAMILIES.* 

James Lemant, born County Antrim, Ireland. Martha 
Smyth Lemant, born County Antrim, Ireland. Children 
were: Smyth Lemant, born County Antrim, Ireland. Jane 
or Jeannette, born County Antrim, Ireland. in 1768, died 
October 8th, 1856. Robert, born County Antrim, Ireland, 
died in South Carolina. John, born County Antrim, Ireland; 
fell overboard and was drowned on the voyage to America. 
Narcissa, born County Antrim, Ireland; died in Chester 
County, S. C. James, born in Chester County, S. C.; died 
in Charleston, S. C. 

The Lemant family left Scotland, in the vicinity of Loch 
Lomond, and settled in the North of Ireland for religious 
freedom. James Lemant was born at Dumfane, County An- 
trim, Ireland. He married Martha, the daughter of James 
Smyth. She was born in Killifleugh, County Antrim. The 
marriage ceremony was performed in a church fifteen miles 
from Belfast, near Ballymana. William Walker Leman, 
their grand-son, visited their birth-place, found the church 
which they attended, and read their names in the parish reg- 
ister of marriages, the signature of each written out clear and 
plain. Learning was the exception not the rule in that day. 

In 1773, the family emigrated from Belfast to America, as 
cabin passengers. A son, Smyth Lemant, supposed to be the 
eldest son, was left with an uncle in Bristol, England. Their 
five children and Martha Lemant, three brothers, Robert, 
George and James Smyth, came over with them. The chil- 
dren were: Jane, usually called Jeannette; Narcissa; an in- 
fant, who died on the voyage; Robert and John. The vessel 
landed at Charleston, S. C.; from there the family went to 
Chester Co., S. C., and settled in the vicinity of Fishing 
Creek Church. 

During the Revolutionary War, this family were staunch 
Whigs. Many interesting stories can be told of the bravery 
of their men and women. James Lemant was killed in the 


* This information was furnished by Mrs. Annie Lee Hudson Hill, 
of Washington, Ga. 


THE OLD STONE CHURCH 175 


Revolutionary War. Robert, George and James Smyth left 
no descendants. 

Jeannette Lemant united with the Fishing Creek congrega- 
tion, in 1784. She married William Walker, a wealthy 
young man of the same congregation. The bride planted the 
flax, spun and made her own wedding dress of white linen. 
This dress was treasured as an heirloom for many years. An 
unusual romance followed the marriage of William and Jean- 
nette. John Walker, the father of William, was a widower. 
Jeannette’s mother, as we know, was a widow. ‘These two 
seniors followed the example of their children, fell in love 
and were married, thus making Jeannette Walker’s own 
mother, her mother-in-law. 

About this period, the name of Lemant was changed in 
spelling to Leman, the last letter having never been restored 
to the name. 

About 1809, William Walker moved with his family to 
Pendleton District, S.C. He brought with him a number of 
slaves, bought a tract of land four miles from the town of 
Pendleton, from Christopher Strong. The place was known 
as “The Oaks.” The family attended the churches of Hope- 
well (Old Stone Church) and Mt. Carmel. In 1818, Wil- 
liam Walker was elected an Elder in Carmel Church. The 
family interments are in the Old Stone Church-yard. Wil- 
liam and Jeannette Walker are buried in the cemetery of Old 
Stone Church. Their tomb-stones bear the following in- 
scriptions : 

Sacred 
to 
the memory of 
Jane Walker, . 
Consort of 
William Walker, 
who Died October 8th, 
1856 
In the 88th year 
of Her age. 


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Seventy-two years a con- 
sistent member of the 
Presbyterian Church. 
She lived universally 
esteemed as pre-eminent 
in Piety and Charity. 
The poor were never turned 
unaided from her door. 
She took the Infant from 
the Breast of the Dying 
mother, Provided for him, 
Educated and trained him 
up to piety and usefulness. 
She Died with a tranquil 
hope of entering the rest 
which awaits the People 
of God. 


“Precious in the sight 
of the Lord is the Death 
of his Saints.” 


Sacred 
To the Memory of 
William Walker, 
who died 25th Jan., 1841 
In the 77th year of his age. 
He lived the life and died 
the death of the Christian. 
“Happy soul thy days are ended, 
All thy mourning days below, 
Go, by angel guards attended, 
To the sight of Jesus go.” 
Their descendants are scattered throughout the Southern 


States. Some of them are mentioned below. 


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Jane E. Walker, eldest daughter, married Col. D. K. Ham- 
ilton. ‘The Russells, of Texas and South Carolina, are her 
descendants. 

Martha Walker, married Dr. James K. Alexander, of 
Greenville District, moved to Atlanta, Ga., in the early part 
of the 19th century. The distinguished jurist, John R. 
Alexander, of Atlanta, Ga., and Capt. T. W. Alexander, of 
Rome, Ga., were her sons. One of her grand-daughters, 
Mrs. James A. Rounsaville, was President of the United 
Daughters of the Confederacy. 

John Smyth Walker left no descendants, and is buried at 
Old Stone Church. 

James Walker, married Mary Jordan and moved to Aber- 
deen, Miss. His grand-son, William, is a prominent lawyer 
of that city. 

Matilda Walker, the third daughter, was crippled in early 
life by an accident with a spirited horse. She bravely en- 
dured this trial and lived a long and useful life at the old 
homestead. She was of a modest and retiring disposition, 
and knowing her family would engrave her praises on her 
monument, secured from them the promise of these few lines 
on a simple stone: 


“Hangs my Helpless Soul on Thee.” 
Matilda Walker, 
Died May 30th, 1874. 


Narcissa Walker, the youngest child, married Major T. H. 
McCann, of Anderson County. They raised an interesting 
family as follows: Mrs. G. D. Barr, Mrs. W. A. Hudson, 
Mrs. T. W. Davis, of Greenville, S. C.; Mrs. Harrison, An- 
derson, S. C.; Mrs. Jno. W. Glenn, of Anderson Co., S. C.; 
Mrs. G. K. Miller, of Talledega, Ala., and one son, who died 
early. 

Eliza Walker, married Col. Alfred Fuller, of Pendleton, 
S. C. She had but one child, now Mrs. A. A. Foster, of 
Spartanburg, S. C. 


178 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


JOSEPH WHITNER. 


JosEPH WHITNER was the son of John Josef Witner, 
and grand-son of Josef Witner, of Germany. About 1764, 
John Josef Witner, with his three children, emigrated to 
America, landing in Charleston, S. C. Within a few months 
after his arrival, he and two of his children died, and Joseph, 
the surviving child, then about seven years of age, was left 
an orphan—“a stranger in a strange land.” He was placed 
in a school in Charleston, where he remained until was 
sounded the first call to arms in the struggle for the Inde- 
pendence of his adopted State; when, although but eighteen 
years of age and regardless of the violent opposition of his 
guardian, he enlisted in the ranks of the patriots and served 
from the beginning of hostilities to the successful close. 
During the first years of the war he was under the renowned 
General Francis Marion; but afterwards was detailed in 
“Upper or Pendleton District,’’ where Indians, incited by 
the English, were committing great depredations. He was 
given a command and did noble service for his State. After 
his death, a companion in arms, Col. Kilpatrick, delighted 
in paying the tribute to Joseph Whitner, that as a com- 
mander he never sent his men into danger, but led them. 
At the close of the war, Joseph Whitner settled in the Pen- 
dleton District and became a surveyor and planter. In 1789 
he married Elizabeth Shackleford, daughter of William 
Shackleford, a Revolutionary patriot, of Hanover County, 
Va. After his marriage, for the sake of euphony, he 
changed his name from “Josef Witner’” to “Joseph Whit- 
ner.” Joseph and Elizabeth Whitner had six children: Col. 
B. F. Whitner, who removed to Florida in 1834; Judge 
Joseph N. Whitner; John Whitner, who enlisted under 
General Jackson in the war of 1812, and on the march to 
New Orleans died and was buried at Wetumpka, Ala.; Mrs. 
Symmes; Mrs. Anthony Ross. 


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Joseph Whitner died April, 1824, aged sixty-seven years ; 
and his wife, born November 29, 1768, died October 24, 
1837. Both buried in “Old Stone Church-yard.” 

Thrown upon his own resources when but a youth, trained 
in the school of bitter experience, alone and unaided, Joseph 
Whitner struggled against adverse circumstances and con- 
quered them; deprived, when a child, of the softening influ- 
ences of home life, it is no wonder he was regarded as an 
austere man, but beneath that severe exterior there was a 
heart as warm as ever beat in human breast. 

By Jno. C. WHITNER, 
Atlanta, Ga. 


180 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


TURNER BYNUM. 


Turner Bynum fell in a duel at Hatton’s Ford, and died 
August 17th, 1832. This duel was the result of a political 
quarrel with Benj. F. Perry, afterwards Governor of South 
Carolina. Young Bynum was an ardent Nullifier, an ad- 
mirer of John C. Calhoun, and Perry was a Unionist. 


Turner Bynum was a young man of unusually brilliant 
intellect and scholarly attainments. Although scarcely 
twenty-eight years of age, he was making a marked impres- 
sion upon the political history of his times. His friend and 
second, the Hon. James H. Hammond, in writing to his 
widowed mother of his tragic death, says: “I feel the full 
force of the affliction. His country has much to lament, 
for his talents were rapidly ripening into eminent usefulness. 
The loss will not soon be supplied.” 

Turner Bynum was born in Charleston, S. C. His 
father, also Turner Bynum, was born in Southampton, Va., 
in 1777. The Bynum family came from England to Vir- 
ginia in the early part of the eighteenth century, presumably 
about 1720. Settling in Southampton, after the lapse of 
years the descendants emigrated to North Carolina, South 
Carolina, and even as far west as Louisiana. Coming to 
South Carolina, Turner Bynum, Sr., married Elizabeth Mil- 
ler, daughter of John Miller, of Charleston, and Catherine 
Long, his wife, of Newberry, S. C. John Miller was de- 
scended from the Dutch settlers in Berk’s County, Pennsyl- 
vania, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army. 
Shortly after the death of Turner Bynum, his elder brother, 
Alfred, a young man of equal brilliancy of intellect, a lawyer 
and a poet, went to Texas and joined the army then being 
organized for the war of Texan Independence. He was a 
member of Col. Fannin’s regiment. They were captured 
by the Mexicans and were massacred at Goliad, Texas, by 
order of General Santa Anna. 


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Both of these young men died defending the principles of 
liberty and the right of a State to self-government. With 
the tragic ending of their lives, the male line of the family 
of Bynum in South Carolina became extinct. 

By SALLIE CHASE PATILLO. 


182 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


OLD PENDLETON. 
From Keowee Courier, Walhalla, S. C., May 7, 1891. 


What hallowed associations does the name of this village 
conjure up! How often in thought do we wander back 
there! Old land-marks and many reminders are still to be 
seen, but the kindly faces and precious souls have nearly all 
gone across the bourne. We hope to meet them again in the 
better land if admitted into the eternal realms of bliss, and as 
time rolls on in her endless cycle, we feel that now and then 
we should feel constrained to spare a moment to peep down 
upon the old familiar spot, where our first fond hopes of 
earth aspired and indulged in many bright anticipations 
which have never been realized. 

Fifty years ago Old Pendleton was the fairest town in 
Upper South Carolina, a community of wealth, intelligence, 
refinement and religion, and the home of the best people it has 
ever fallen to our lot to know; a resort of giant minds who 
would do honor to any age of the world’s history, such men 
as John C. Calhoun, Langdon Cheves, Daniel Huger, War- 
ren R. Davis, John Taylor, David K. Hamilton, the Pinck- 
neys, Haynes, Earles ; the Generals Pickens, Anderson, Blass- 
ingame; the Colonels Warren, Allston and Barton, and the 
homes of Barnard E. Bee, the Stevens brothers, of Charles- 
ton gunboat fame, of Confederate times, home of John and 
Pat Calhoun, the well known young financiers of to-day ; and 
from these old hills came our astute Senator, Joseph E. 
Brown, Atlanta’s brainiest man; Dr. H. V. M. Miller, Gene- 
ral Rusk, of Texas, a power in his day; Governors Perry and 
Orr; Commissioner Stribling, of the Navy, and hundreds 
who have left their impress upon this new world, and in their 
day and time helped to lay the foundation and build up 
this great country; and a host of others whose honorable 
names and useful citizenship would challenge the world for 
comparison. 

Such was the status of Old Pendleton fifty years ago, when 


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in the full tide of her prosperity, a splendid Piedmont climate, 
with fertile lands and under the old slave regime, and when 
the wealth resided in the country and agricultural pursuits 
were regarded second to none other as an occupation of honor 
and profit, and were conducted with an intelligence and ad- 
vancement scarcely surpassed to-day in the South. 

Old Pendleton was famed for the beauty and gentleness of 
her women as well as for the high tone and pluck of her men. 
Old Pendleton District was then about the size of the State 
of Rhode Island, and the good old town was the grand center 
of both society and trade, and, indeed, was one of the fore- 
most pioneer towns of the South. 

It was in the streets of Old Pendleton that her indignant 
citizens kindled the first bonfire that consumed in its flames 
the first incendiary papers and letters sent South by the 
Abolitionists to stir strife and discord among a happy people. 

One of the first female high schools in the South was con- 
ducted by the Misses Bates and Billings, from Vermont, who 
taught the young ladies etiquette and French, graceful atti- 
tudes and highfalutin notions, modern manners, to walk 
daintily and to scream fashionably at a bug or a mouse. 

One of the first military academies was here, where the 
boys were drilled daily, wore gray uniforms and brass but- 
tons. 

My first recollection of a Sunday School was there in the 
old Baptist Church, which is still standing. Uncle Tommy 
Sloan and Mrs. Fanny Mayes were the managing and leading 
spirits. We had little church catechisms and the first and 
second questions were “Who made man?” “Of what did 
God make man?” 

The first cooking stove I ever heard of, my father bought, 
and was describing its excellencies to Uncle Tommy, and 
among its other advantages he said, “Why, Tommy, it will 
save half the fuel;” when he replied, ‘Well, Billy, why not 
get two of them and save all the fuel ?”’ 

One of the first cotton factories was established there and 


184 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


met with great success and profit for many years and up to 
his death, by Major B. F. Sloan, and is still in operation by 
the Sittons. 

Pendleton and her Agricultural Society, fair grounds and 
race track, and some of her exhibitions, would put to blush 
some of the fairs of the present day. 

Pendleton had four flourishing churches, two hotels, and 
who of her old citizens does not remember the long ball-reom 
in the old Tom Cherry Hotel, and the beautiful young girls 
who once skimmed like swallows over those well waxed 
floors, and the stately matrons, who, as chaperones, patron- 
ized with their presence those delightful occasions and gave 
dignity and respectability to the ball-room? The old Debat- 
ing Society held in the old Farmer’s Hall, and ever graced by 
a full attendance of the fair sex? The magnificent coaches 
and the elegant spans of horses that whirled up the dust in 
the streets of the old town? What old citizen’s heart is not 
made to throb at the recollection of thrilling notes from the 
stage horn borne over the hills to notify of its coming? How 
the people would gather round the hotel and the post office as 
the great, rocking, ponderous vehicle came rolling and swing- 
ing over the rocks, drawn by five or six horses, dashing in at 
a gallop into the center of the old town with its passengers 
and mail. And with what eager excitement the citizens 
sought to welcome friends and visitors and receive the tardy 
news. 

Who does not remember the old Pendleton Messenger and 
Dr. F. W. Symmes, its editor, and the old Farmer and Plan- 
ter, and Major George Seabourne, proprietor and publisher; 
Mr. E. B. Benson, the long time merchant, and old Billy 
Hubbard, the jolly landlord; the old English dancing master, 
Walon; rich old Sam Maverick, the eccentric old man; Sid 
Cherry, the bachelor; Tommy Christian, the town marshal, 
and many others we have not space to mention here? 

The first Farmer’s Society in the South was inaugurated at 
Old Pendleton in the year 1815, and was known as the Pen- 


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dleton Farmer's Society, and, if we are not misinformed, the 
second society of its kind in the United States, the third being 
in Charleston in 1818, the first being in Philadelphia. The 
first officers of the Pendleton Farmer's Society were James C. 
Griffin, President; Josiah Gailliard, Vice-President; Col. 
Robert Anderson, Secretary; Joseph V. Shanklin, Treasurer 
and Corresponding Secretary. 

There, too, was published one of the first agricultural 
monthlies in the South, under the proprietorship and man- 
agement of Major George Seabourne,—The Farmer and 
Planter, a most able and valuable ally to the Farmer’s So- 
ciety, and did much to promote the spirit of agriculture in 
that section in its day. 

But the glory of the old town has long since departed; in 
the first place, shorn of her Sampson locks, robbed of her 
territory and capitalcy, the great District cut up into Ander- 
son, Pickens and Oconee; and the railroads, of which she lit- 
tle dreamed then, have ignored her claims, stolen away her 
thrift, and now the good old town of Auld Lang Syne stands 
out forlorn, gray and dilapidated in her tottering senility. 
But there still lingers a fragrance of intelligence and refine- 
ment in her social atmosphere that ever strikes the visitor 
with admiration and respect. 

Since the days of which we have been speaking, the second 
and third generations are passing from the stage of action, 
rapidly losing their grip on life and falling off into the sea of 
time. Of the second, Col. Tom Pickens, Mr. Dickson and 
John Sitton alone remain. Mr. William Gailliard died but 
recently, and but a remnant of the third generation is left. 
The Clemson Agricultural College is now being erected at old 
Fort Hill, the John C. Calhoun place; a fine hotel is about to 
be built at Old Pendleton, and it is thought that the old town 
is looking up somewhat. May the Lord bless the faithful old 
spot, and may she become once more as she was in the days of 
yore as a “city set upon a hill.” 


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OLD PENDLETON. 


AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE ADDRESS DELIVERED BY 
Pror. Wii1t1AM S. Morrison BEFORE PENDLETON 
CHAPTER, DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. 


The Pendleton Chapter of the United Daughters of the 
Confederacy in April last requested Prof. Wm. S. Morrison, 
of Clemson College, to address them and the Confederate 
Veterans on Memorial Day, at Pendleton, on “Old Pendle- 
ton.” The following address, in compliance with that re- 
quest, was delivered on the occasion named, May 9, 1903: 


OLD PENDLETON. 
The plow-boy poet of Scotland, in one of his well known 
songs, with feeling makes this declaration: 


“Of a’ the airts the wind can blow 
I dearly love the West.” 


Such seem to have been mother nature’s feelings toward 
so much of her vast domains as men to-day call South Caro- 
lina. In its western corner is the “Alpine Region” of the 
Palmetto State. Here, as in Caledonia, 


“Wild woods grow and rivers row, 
And monie a hill between.” 


Here, in Mt. Pinnacle, in Pickens County, our State 
reaches its greatest elevation—three thousand six hundred 
feet—above old ocean’s level. Here the lover of the sub- 
lime and the beautiful in nature finds Table Rock, “rearing 
a colossal and almost perpendicular wall of solid granite over 
eleven hundred feet above its base, and striking the beholder 
with awe and wonder.” Here is seen the vale of Jocassee— 
“celebrated for its romantic situation, rich valleys and beau- 
tiful waterfalls—tliterally shut in on every side by lofty 
mountains.” 

This sunset corner of Carolina was, in the days of 
the Indian, the home of the Cherokees. About one-tenth 
of the territory of these dusky warriors of the mountains 
was within the present limits of the little Secession State. 


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As early as 1730, when our colony was but three-score years 
old, the King of England sent Sir Alexander Cumming three 
thousand miles across the Atlantic, and from the settlement 
at Charleston, three hundred miles into the wilderness to 
treat with the chiefs of these tribes. This fact is evidence 
of the estimate placed by England upon the value of the 
lands and the worth of the friendship of these red men in 
the struggle then pending between Briton and Gaul for the 
possession of the great valley—the very heart of the North 
American Continent. The details of this treaty, made 
within the limits of Old Pendleton District, at Keowee, an 
important Indian town which stood on land by the side of 
the river of the same name, now owned by Mr. Nimmons. 
are full of interest and may be read in the records of those 
early days. 

Twenty-five years later—about 1755—The Colonial Go- 
vernor of Carolina, James Glenn, made another treaty with 
the aborigines, securing vast tracts of land in the upper part 
of the State, and permission to erect in the Indian territory 
forts for the protection of the back country. One of the 
most important of these forts was Prince George, on the 
Keowee, opposite, and within cannon shot of, the Indian 
village of Keowee, above mentioned. Capt. R. E. Steele, 
a Confederate veteran, now owns the site of this famous 
fort, and takes peculiar pleasure in pointing out to the visi- 
tor the spring which supplied pure mountain water to the 
garrison; a large mulberry tree which grew up on the walls, 
and the lines of the fortification. Much valuable history 
and many thrilling traditions cluster around old Fort Prince 
George. Miss Murfree’s “Story of Old Fort London” and 
Dr. J. Walter Daniel’s poem, “Cateechee of Keowee,” are 
cordially commended to all who are fond of reading the 
stories of those distant times. 

Twenty years after Glenn’s treaty the War of the Revolu- 
tion broke out. The Cherokees sided with the English. 
While Parker and Clinton were to attack Charleston the 


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Cherokees were to lay waste the back country settlements. 
Britain’s plans were well laid. But Moultrie and his men 
on the sands of Sullivan’s Island, and Williamson with his 
followers amid the wooded hills of the up-country, furnished 
another striking illustration of the going “a-glee” of men’s 
best laid schemes. During this campaign—in the summer 
of 1776—Williamson threw up fortifications on Eighteen 
Mile Creek, portions of which may to-day be seen near the 
brick yards of Mr. J. C. Stribling. About the same time 
he built Fort Rutledge, on the Seneca, which, with its guns, 
overawed the Indian village called Seneca, one of the most 
important of the “lower towns” of the Cherokees. This 
fort was once garrisoned by two independent companies of 
rangers. Near it, on the plantation, afterwards owned by 
Mr. Andrew F. Lewis, Capt. Salvador was slain in battle 
with the savages and Tories. When John C. Calhoun came 
into possession of the farm, which was his home for the last 
twenty-five years of his honored life, he called this place 
“Fort Hill,” in commemoration of Fort Rutledge. 

Other places within the limits of ““Old Pendleton” closely 
associated with Cherokee history are Hopewell and Tomas- 
see, both homes of Gen. Andrew Pickens. The former near 
Cherry’s Crossing, on the Blue Ridge Railroad, where the 
railroad bridge spans the Seneca River, the latter about 
eight miles north of Walhalla. The former was the scene 
of several important treaties, the latter of a hard-fought 
battle, wherein the old Christian Statesman and warrior 
rendered most efficient service. Gen. Pickens died suddenly 
at omassee while sitting in a chair under a shade tree— 
still standing—in his yard. His remains were brought to 
the cemetery of Hopewell Church, named in honor of his 
former home near by, popularly known as the Old Stone 
Church, and laid to rest by the side of the grave of his wife, 
Rebecca Calhoun, an aunt of John C. Calhoun, Carolina’s 
most illustrious son. 

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ward, surrendering their last holdings in South Carolina 
in 1817. These people, in the war of 1812, rendered Gen. 
Andrew Jackson valuable assistance from their homes in 
Georgia. Forced later from that State, many of them were 
sent beyond the great “Father of Waters.” Daughters of 
the Confederacy, at whose request this address is prepared, 
may be interested in recalling that the Cherokees, at the 
outbreak of the War Between the States, took the side of 
the Confederacy, and rendered valiant service in the battles 
of the West. 

In the “Myths of the Cherokees’’—one of our Government 
publications—is a store house of good things of the history 
and tradition of the red men who dwelt where we of “Old 
Pendleton” now dwell. 

For almost one hundred years after the first permanent 
settlement of our State no courts, save those at Charleston, 
were held within its borders. Consequent lawlessness led 
to the rule of the “Regulators.” This induced the authori- 
ties to provide in 1768-—eight years before the Declaration 
of Independence—for seven Judicial Districts, viz: Charles- 
ton, Beaufort, Orangeburg, Georgetown, Camden, Cheraw 
and Ninety-Six. The first six are in the old Statutes, accu- 
rately defined. The seventh, Ninety-Six District or Pre- 
cinct, is therein somewhat vaguely declared to extend to all 
other parts of the Province. In 1791—eight years after 
the formal close of the Revolution—George Washington’s 
first term as President being about half out, the year of his 
tour of the Southern States, Charles Pinckney being Gover- 
nor of South Carolina, an Act to further regulate the Cir- 
cuit Courts created Pinckney and Washington Districts— 
the latter including the Counties of Greenville and Pendle- 
ton. Pickensville, which stood near Easley, was the County 
seat of the Washington District. ; 

Seven years later, in 1798, Pendleton and Greenville were 
made separate Judicial Districts, Pendleton being the County 
seat of the former, Greenville of the latter. 


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In 1826, fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, 
the death year of Jefferson and the elder Adams, Pendleton 
was divided into the Judicial Districts of Anderson and 
Pickens, the County seat of the former being located at 
Anderson, the latter at Pickens Court House, now known 
as “Old Pickens,’ near the site of old Fort Prince George 
and the Indian village of Keowee. 


In the Constitutional Convention of 1865, the year of 
Lee’s surrender, the long struggle to make “Judicial” and 
“Election” Districts, the same in fact and in name, was 
nearly ended, Charleston being the sole exception. 

The Constitutional Convention of 1868, military ordered, 
negro chosen, and in the main “carpet-bag,”’ “scalawag” 
and negro composed, changed the name “District” to 
“County,” thus bringing South Carolina into conformity 
with all the other States except Louisiana, divided Pickens 
County into Oconee County, with Walhalla its County seat, 
and Pickens County with the County seat at the present 
Pickens Court House. 

The members of the Convention from the Oconee County 
section had the boundary lines so arranged as to retain Cal- 
houn’s old home within their territory, and yet named their 
new County, not after the famous Statesman, but after a 
small tribe of Cherokee Indians. 

As there are “sermons in stone” and “books in brooks,” 
so there are histories in names. 

Pendleton was named in honor of Henry Pendleton, who 
was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1750, and died 
in Greenville District, South Carolina, January 10th, 1789. 
He was educated in Virginia. He and his brother Nathan- 
iel joined the “Culpeper Minute Men,” the first patriotic 
regiment that was organized in the South. Both served in 
our State. Henry Pendleton was captured at the taking 
of Charleston. Having learned of a plot of a party of 
Tories to take him from his quarters at night and hang him 
at the town gate, he counterfeited the signature of a British 


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officer to a pass, and by its use escaped. Cornwallis wrote 
Moultrie concerning the matter and demanded Pendleton’s 
return. The answer of the hero of the Palmetto log fort 
was characteristic—he was concerned with nobody’s pass- 
ports but his own. 


After the war, Pendleton settled in South Carolina and 
was elected Judge. He was the author of the County Court 
Act, passed March 17th, 1785, and was one of the three 
Judges appointed that year to revise the laws of the State. 
He was one of the Trustees of the short-lived College of 
Cambridge, at Ninety-Six. Judge Pendleton was a mem- 
ber of the Constitutional Convention of 1788. He died at 
thirty-nine—seven months and twenty days after his adopted 
State had ratified the Federal Constitution—three months 
and twenty days before Washington, the illustrious ‘“Cincin- 
natus of the West,” took, for the first time, the oath of office 
as President of the new United States of America. 

Suffer your speaker to read you a page from an old book, 
rare and valuable, which contains an article on Pendleton 
District : 

“The Court House is located in the village of Pendleton, 
which, from this circumstance, may be considered the Dis- 
trict town. It is pleasantly situated near the waters of 
Eighteen Mile Creek, a considerable branch of the Seneca 
River, which empties into the Savannah; and contains, be- 
sides a Court House (a new Court House on an elegant and 
spacious plan will soon be erected here, an appropriation 
being made for this purpose by the Legislature) and jail, 
a Presbyterian and Episcopal Church, forty houses, several 
of them neat, an academy, printing office (issuing a weekly 
paper), and an Agricultural Hall, for the meeting of a So- 
ciety of this nature. There is every prospect of the village 
increasing in population. A very select society is found 
here and in the neighborhood, where-some gentlemen of 
fortune and high respectability, from the low country, have 
located themselves and families. A beautiful view of the 


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mountains is obtained from the village. These bound the 
horizon to the north. Among the breaks of these colossal 
mounds is discovered the entrance into the interesting valley 
of Jocassee, celebrated in song; and off in the distance the 
eye rests on that splendid mass of perpendicular rock (the 
admiration of travelers), the Table Mountain, backed by 
the most elevated grounds in the State, the Sassafras Moun- 
tain. 

“Several settlements, as villages, are established in various 
places in the District. The oldest of these is Pickensville, 
formerly the seat of justice, but now reduced to three or 
four houses. It is situate seven or eight miles west of the 
Saluda River. The 17th Regiment muster grounds is 
located here. 

“Rock Mills village lies on Generosittee River, a water 
of Savannah. Here is the largest merchants’ mill in the 
District, belonging to Maverick & Lewis; also a saw mill, 
spindle factory and distilleries, besides several wagon- 
makers, shoe-makers, etc. 

“Centreville was established by FE. Earle, Esq., principally 
for manufacturing purposes. 

“A town was laid out by Gen, Anderson, on the Tugaloo 
or Savannah River, at the junction of the Seneca, called 
Andersonville. It is situate at the very point of a peninsula, 
and is a most romantic spot. The project of making it a 
commercial town failed. In this place two mills and a forge, 
etc., were built and a manufactory of small arms established. 
About one hundred had actually been made when peace put 
an end to the scheme. As the war contributed to injure it 
in other respects, and checked the spirit of enterprise, the 
principal persons moved away. At this place there is now 
a store, which collects from the Indians the spigelia mari- 
landica (pink root), which is made up into bundles of about 
one pound each, stem and all, which are pressed into large 
hogsheads containing 600 pounds each. ‘This plant brings, 
in Savannah or Charleston, 25 cents a pound. There are 


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also sent to market from this place about 1,000 pounds ox 
ginseng and several hogsheads of snakeroot, both of the 
black and Seneca kind. The Savannah is here about 400 
yards wide.” 

The “weekly paper,” mentioned in the extract just read, 
was “The Pendleton Weekly Messenger.” It was the first 
newspaper in Western South Carolina, and was perhaps the 
first paper in America published so far toward the west. 
Its founder and publisher was John Miller, commonly known 
as ‘‘Printer John,” or “Printer Miller,’ who left England 
on account of his connection with the publication of the 
“Junius Letters.” His press was one Gen. Nathaniel Greene 
had used in his campaigns for publishing military orders. 

In an appendix to ‘““Ramsey’s History of South Carolina,” 
whose preface date is December 31, 1808, the reader sees 
this statement : 

“Among the attempts to diffuse knowledge may be men- 
tioned a weekly newspaper which is very well conducted and 
printed at the village of Pendleton by Mr. Miller. It is a 
fact worthy of record that in the frontier District, thirty 
years ago possessed by the Indians, the publication of a 
newspaper has commenced and is carried on in a manner 
worthy of patronage. The yearly subscription is two dol- 
lars and a half.” 

The first Court House was of logs and stood, we learn, 
near the railroad culvert, not far from the junction of the two 
branches. The second was of brick and its site was near the 
present Farmers’ Hall, which was built of the material of the 
temple of justice. A friend, learned in the law, informs us 
that among the many illustrious names on the records of the 
Pendleton Courts as practicing therein appear those of John 
C. Calhoun and George McDuffie, Zachariah Taliafero, a 
soldier of the Revolution; Warren R. Davis, a member of 
Congress and a close friend of Davy Crockett; Joseph Tay- 
lor; the brothers Armsted and Francis Burt, the last named 
appointed by President Pierce the first Governor of the terri- 


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tory of Nebraska, died while in office, and was brought back 
to Pendleton and buried in the Episcopal church-yard; and 
the brothers, Milledge L. and James Bonham, the latter an 
emigrant to Texas and a victim of the massacre at the Alamo. 
Benjamin F. Perry, a native of the District, made his maiden 
speech in the Pendleton Court House, and the last speech of 
his life was made from a stand erected near its site, from 
which, while scarcely able to stand from the weakness of age, 
he addressed an immense multitude—The Farmers’ Society 
and its and his many friends. On this occasion, but a short 
time before his death, Governor Perry was entertained by his 
life-long friend, the late John B. Sitton, who, on hearing the 
aged statesman express a wish to see once more the grave of 
his father and mother, sent him in a carriage on that pious 
mission. 

Truly, as the poet priest of the Confederacy sings in im- 
mortal strains, in words which men will not willingly let die: 


“There is grandeur in graves, 

There is glory in gloom; 

For out of the gloom future brightness is born, 
As after the night comes the sunrise of morn.” 


The best, and best known, historical novel that relates to 
Western South Carolina is J. P. Kennedy’s “Horseshoe Rob- 
ertson.”’ ‘The hero’s home was in Pendleton District, and he 
lived here a third of acentury. His house still stands. Hear 
the reading of an extract from an old paper—“Flag of the 
Union,” published at Tuscaloosa, Ala., dated January 17th, 
1838: 


“HORSESHOE, ROBERTSON.” 


“Who has not read Kennedy’s delightful novel of this 
name, and who that has read it would not give an half day’s 
ride to see the venerable living hero of the tale of the ‘Tory 
Ascendency,’ the immortal Horseshoe himself, the extermina- 
tor of ‘Jim Curry’ and ‘Hugh Habershaw?’ The venerable 
patriot bearing the familiar sobriquet, and whose name Mr. 
Kennedy has made as familiar in the mouths of American 


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youths as household words, was visited by us, in company 
with several friends, one day last week. We found the old 
gentlemen on his plantation, about twelve miles from this 
city, as comfortably situated with respect to this world’s 
goods as any one could desire to have him. It was gratify- 
ing to us to see him in his old age, after having served 
through the whole war of independence, thus seated under his 
own vine and fig tree, with his children around him and with 
the partner of his early toils and trials still continued to him, 
enjoying in peace and safety the rich rewards of that arduous 
struggle, in the most gloomy and desponding hour of which 
he was found as ready, as earnest, as zealous, for the cause of 
liberty as when victory perched upon her standard, and the 
star of the ‘Tory Ascendency’ was for a while dimmed by de- 
feat, and in which he continued with unshaken faith and con- 
stancy until it sank below the horizon, never again to rise. 
The old gentleman gave us a partial history of his Revolu- 
tionary adventures, containing many interesting facts re- 
specting the domination of the Tory party in the South 
during the times of the Revolution which Mr. Kennedy has 
not recorded in his book. But it will chiefly interest our 
readers, or that portion of them at least to whom the history 
of the old hero’s achievements as recorded by Mr. Kennedy is 
familiar, to be assured that the principal incidents therein 
portrayed are strictly true. 

“That his escape from Charleston after the capture of that 
city, his being entrusted with a letter to Butler, the scene at 
Wat Adair’s, the capture of Butler at Grindal’s Ford, his sub- 
sequent escape and recapture, the death of John Ramsay and 
the detection of the party by reason of the salute fired over his 
grave, his capturing the four men under the command of the 
younger St. Germyn, his attack upon Innis’s camp, and the 
death of Hugh Habershaw by his own hand, and finally the 
death of Jim Curry, are all narrated pretty much as they 
occurred, is certain. In the old veteran’s language, “There is 
a heap of truth in it, though the writer has mightily furnished 


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it up.’ That the names of Butler, Mildred Linsay, Mary 
Musgrove, John Ramsay, Hugh Habershaw, Jim Curry, and 
in fact almost every other used in the book, with the excep- 
tion of his own, are real and not fictitious. His own name, 
he informed us, is James; and that he did not go by the famil- 
iar appellation by which he is now so widely known until 
after the war, when he acquired it from the form of his plan- 
tation in the Horseshoe Bend of the Chauga Creek, which 
_ was bestowed upon him by the Legislature of South Carolina 
in consequence of the services he had rendered during the 
war. This estate, we understood him to say, he still owned. 
“He was born, he says, in 1759, and entered the army in 
his seventeenth year. Before the close of the war, he says he 
commanded a troop of horses, so that his military title is that 
of Capt. Horseshoe. Although in infirm health, he bears 
evident marks of having been a man of great personal 
strength and activity. He is now afflicted with a trouble- 
some cough, which, in the natural course of events, must, in a 
few years, wear out his aged frame. Yet, notwithstanding 
his infirmities and general debility, his eye still sparkles with 
the fire of youth, as he recounts the stirring and thrilling inci- 
dents of the war, and that sly, quiet humor, so well described 
by Kennedy, may still be seen playing around his mouth as 
one calls to his recollections any of the pranks he was wont 
to play upon any of the ‘Tory vagrants,’ as he very properly 
styles them. The old gentleman received us with warm cor- 
diality and hospitality, and after partaking of the bounties of 
his board and spending a night under his hospitable roof, we 
took leave of him, sincerely wishing him many years of the 
peaceful enjoyment of that liberty which he fought so long. 
and so bravely to achieve. It will not be uninteresting, we 
hope, to remark that the old hero still considers himself a 
soldier, though the nature of his warfare is changed. He is 
now as zealous a promoter of the Redeemer’s cause as he 
once was in securing the independence of his country. 
“Since the above was in type we have heard of the death of 


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the aged partner of this venerable patriot. An obituary 
notice will be found in another column. 

“Truly in friendship, 

“Signed : Tuomas P. CLINTON.” 

Within a few weeks after the visit thus described the old 
soldier met “the last enemy that shall be overcome.” His 
grave is near the Black Warrior River, a few miles from Tus- 
caloosa, Alabama, and the inscription on the marble marking 
his last resting place is: 

“Major James Robertson, a native of South Carolina, died 
April 26, 1838, aged 79 years, and was buried here. 

“Well known as Horseshoe Robertson he earned a just 
fame in the war for independence in which he was eminent in 
courage, patriotism and suffering. He lived fifty-six years 
with his worthy partner, useful and respected, and died in 
hopes of a blissful immortality. His children erect this mon- 
ument as a tribute justly due a gone father, husband, neigh- 
bor, patriot and soldier. Name derived from a bend in a 
creek in South Carolina.” 

Anderson and Pickens Districts, comprising the territory 
of Old Pendleton, were represented in the Secession Conven- 
tion, Columbia-Charleston, 1860, 1862, by the following il- 
lustrious, trusted and honored sons: Anderson, J. N. Whit- 
ner, James L,. Orr, J. P. Reed, R. F. Simpson and Benjamin 
Franklin Mauldin; Pickens, William Hunter, Andrew F. 
Lewis, Robert A. Thompson, William S$. Grisham and John 
Maxwell. 

This Convention at Charleston, having left Columbia on a 
special train on account of smallpox in the capital city, on the 

20th day of December, 1860, by a vote of one hundred sixty- 
_nine yeas, nays none, adopted the Ordinance of Secession. A 
fac simile of this ordinance, signatures included, the gift to 
the College of the Hon. William A. Courtenay, neatly 
framed, may be seen in the historical museum of Clemson 
College. 
Of these signers from the territory of Old Pendleton, all 


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have crossed over the river and are sleeping with their fath- 
ers, save one, Robert A. Thompson, now living in Walhalla. 
Two weeks ago to-day your speaker heard him address an 
educational meeting at Seneca. His subject was “Memorial 
Day.” The venerable speaker made an earnest appeal for 
a Confederate monument at Walhalla, Anderson having re- 
cently erected one, in honor of the memory of the Southern 
soldiers from Oconee County, and for a monument at Co- 
lumbia in memoriam of Wade Hampton. 

The occasion seems a fit one to speak of the burial places 
of these signers. William S. Grisham’s grave is at West 
Union, Benjamin Franklin Mauldin’s at Williamston, Wil- 
liam Hunter’s near Pickens Court House, J. N. Whitner’s, 
James L,. Orr’s and J. P. Reed’s at Anderson, R. F. Simp- 
son’s at his home place, near Pendleton, and Andrew F. 
Lewis’s and John Maxwell’s at the Old Stone Church. Near 
the ashes of Messrs. Simpson and Lewis lie the mortal re- 
mains of a son of each, boys who wore the gray and gave 
their young lives for the cause so dear to the father’s heart— 
the cause for which Lee fought and Jackson died. These 
fathers signed—their sons died—for Secession. 


“Rach for his hearth and household fire; 
Father for child, and son for sire.” 


The Pendleton Farmers’ Society was organized in 1815. 
Its honorary members were: Gen. Thomas Pinckney, St. 
James, Santee; Hon. Wm. Lowndes, C. C. Pinckney, Jr., 
R. S. Izard, J. R. Pringle, Dr. J. Noble, Gen. D. E. Huger, 
all of Charleston; Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Washington City; 
Col. J. B. ’On, St. James, Santee; Col. L. J. Alston, St. 
Stephens, Alabama; Rev. Dr. Waddell, Athens, Ga.; Gen. 
John Blassingame, Greenville; D. P. Hillhouse, Washing- 
ton, Ga.; Dr. Isaac Auld, Edisto Island; Dr. C. M. Reese, 
Philadelphia. 

Its resident members were in 1815: Thomas Pinckney, 
Jr., Jno. L. North, Andrew Pickens, Benjamin Smith, John 
Miller, Sr., Charles Gaillard, John E. Calhoun, J. T. Lewis, 


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Thos. L. Dart, J. B. Earle, C. W. Miller, Samuel Cherry, 
John Taylor, James C. Griffin, Robert Anderson, William 
Hunter, Benjamin DuPre, Sr., Joseph Grisham, L. Mc- 
Gregor, Samuel Earle, Richard Harrison, Patrick Norris, 
J. C. Kilpatrick, Joseph B. Earle, T. W. Farrar, Thomas 
Stribling, John Green, Josia D. Gaillard and Joseph Von 
Shanklin. 

In 1816, John Maxwell, B. F. Perry, William Hubbart, 
E.. B. Benson, George Reese, Sr., George W. Liddell, J. B. 
Perry, John Martin, T. Farrar, W. R. Davis, William Gas- 
ton, Joseph Reed, Elam Sharpe, D. Sloan, Jr., Samuel War- 
ren, Leonard Simpson, Major Lewis, Samuel Taylor. 

In 1817, William Steele, James Lawrence, Francis Burt, 
John Hunter, W. S. Adair, William Taylor, William An- 
derson, Joseph Mitchell, Thomas Lorton, Rev. James Hill- 
house, Benjamin Dickson, Richard Lewis, J. T. Whitfield, 
J. B. Hammond, John Holbert, Robert Lemon. 

In 1818, John Hall, David Cherry, John Gaillard, Charles 
Story, Samuel Gassaway, R. A. Maxwell, J. P. Lewis, F. 
W. Symmes, Geo. Reese, Jr., Joseph Whitner, James Faris, 
William Oliver, James O. Lewis, Thomas Sloan, Henry 
McCravy, David K. Hamilton. 

These names with the Constitution and By-Laws of the 
organization, together with the letters and papers read be- 
fore the Society at its various meetings, may be found in 
a pamphlet printed at the Telescope Press, Columbia, in 
1820, several copies of which are extant in the community. 

The valedictory address of the first President, Thomas 
Pinckney, Jr., closes with this sentence: “I hope, and per- 
suade myself, that the views of the Society will encourage 
individual attempts to introduce grass fields as a regular ro- 
tation, and the last words of your first President are, “Gen- 
tlemen, make hay.’ ”’ 

Our leading agriculturists of to-day, backed up by our 
members of Congress and the Department of Agriculture at 
Washington, are earnestly advising the same wise course, 


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and the grass gardens of the South Carolina Experiment 
Station are within three miles of the hall built by the Pen- 
dleton Farmers’ Society, the first Society of the kind organ- 
ized in our State, the second within the limits of our United 
States. 

In an old book (Mill’s Statistics), whose press date is 
1826, the reader finds this paragraph: 

“Commerce and Manufactures.—Charleston and Ham- 
burg are the two principal markets of this District. But 
little progress has been made in manufactures, except in the 
domestic way. Every family manufactures cotton cloth for 
their own use, which gives employment, during wet weather, 
to idle hands. There is one cotton factory, owned by Mr. 
Garrison, in the District, which manufactures for sale on a 
small scale. A rifle gun factory is established on Chatuga 
Creek” 

Of this “one cotton factory, owned by Mr. Garrison,” 
we have not been able to learn anything more from either 
record or tradition. In the 30’s of the last century Pendle- 
ton factory was built by Messrs. Sloan, Benson and Sloan, 
and was operated by them until 1865, making “block yarns,” 
which were used in the old hand looms of ante-bellum days 
to make homespun and as a basis for jeans. ‘The first ma- 
chinery for the mill was made in Patterson, N. J., and was 
hauled on wagons from Hamburg, South Carolina. The 
factory is still in operation, owned by Col. A. J. Sitton, and 
produces carpet yarns. 

It is interesting to note that the B. F. Sloan who built 
the Pendleton factory, the pioneer of the many mills now 
in the territory of Old Pendleton District, was the father 
of Dr. P. H. E. Sloan, now Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Clemson Agricultural, Mechanical and Textile College, 
which office he has filled since the organization of that insti- 
tution. 

It fits well the place and the hour to commend most cor- 
dially the course of Hon. D. K. Norris, a battle-scarred 


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veteran of the War of Secession, a life Trustee of Clemson 
College, and the President of two cotton mills, in calling the 
Post Office at one mill Cateechee and in naming the new 
mill, now building, Issaqueena—different forms of the name 
of the Indian maiden, who, well known tradition teaches. 
ran from Keowee to Cambridge to warn her lover and his 
pale face friends of an intended hostile incursion of the 
Cherokees. 
“Yes, give me the land that hath legends and lays 

That tell of the memories of long-vanished days; 

Yes, give me a land that hath story and song, 

Enshrining the strife of the right with the wrong.” 

A friend furnishes us the following lists of the names of 
Confederate soldiers buried in the church-yards of the town 
of Pendleton: 

“Baptist Church—Robert Maxwell, Edward Maxwell, 
Priestly Maxwell, John Maxwell, Jr., Frank Maxwell, Dr. 
James Sloan, J. D. Smith, B. F. Gantt, James Duke, Richard 
Wilson, David Keisler. 

“Episcopal Church—Gen. Barnard E. Bee, Gen. Clement 
Stephens, Henry Stephens, J. C. Clemson, Alex. Warley, J. 
F. Calhoun, Lawrence Smith, Benj. Smith, Harry Miller, 
Earle Seaborn, Willie Seaborn, Sam’l Taylor, Dr. T. L. 
Cuthbert, J. W. Wilkinson, — — Stark, Major Jos. Adams. 

“Methodist Church—Henry Knuff, John Frasier. 

“Presbyterian Church—James Hunter.” 

As a tribute to their memory, suffer your speaker, 
Daughters of the Confederacy, to read the inscription on 
the Confederate monument in the State House yard, Co- 
lumbia, S. C.: 

This Monument 
Perpetuates the Memory 
of those who, 

True to the instincts of their birth, 
Faithful to the teachings of their Fathers, 
Constant in their love for the State, 
Died in the performance of their Duty. 


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Who 
Have glorified a fallen cause 
By the simple manhood of their lives 
And the heroism of Death, 


And who, 

In the dark hours of imprisonment, 
In the hopelessness of the hospital, 
In the short, sharp agony of the field, 
Found support and consolation 
In the belief 


That at home they would not be 
Forgotten. 


Let the Stranger 
Who may in future times 
Read this Inscription 
Recognize that these were Men 
Whom Power could not corrupt, 
Whom Death could not terrify, 
Whom Defeat could not dishonor ; 
And let their Virtues plead 
For Just Judgment 
Of the cause in which they perished; 
Let the South Carolinians 
Of another generation 
Remember 
That the State taught them 
How to live and how to die, 
And that from her broken fortunes 
She has preserved for her children 
The priceless treasure of their 
Memories, 
Teaching all who may claim 
The same Birthright 
That Truth, Courage and Patriotism 
Endure Forever. 


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These words might be read with profit at any and every 
Memorial Day celebration in South Carolina. At this place 
to read them seems most appropriate. Their gifted author’s 
grave is in your Episcopal cemetery. They came from the 
pen of William H. Trescott, the most illustrious diplomat 
South Carolina has produced. 

Every school boy knows that Barnard E. Bee gave Jack- 
son at Manassas his immortal name of Stonewall, the name 
bestowed on the bloody field, displacing that given beside the 
baptismal font. Every Carolinian should know that Bee’s 
ashes are in a Pendleton church-yard ; that Maj. R. F. Simp- 
son, a veteran of the war with the Seminoles, while a Con- 
gressman from the native State of both, appointed Bee a 
cadet at West Point, and every member of the Pendleton 
Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy should 
delight to tell that when Bee fell from his horse, soon after 
pointing to Jackson and calling on his men to stand like a 
stone wall, shot to the death, his mind turned to his old 
home and his school-mates and he called out, ““Where are 
the Pendleton boys? Let them take me off the field.” 
Color Sergeant Robert Maxwell and Lieutenant Richard 
Lewis were two of those who did so. 

Most appropriately to-day does a grand-daughter of 
Major Simpson, representing the Barnard E. Bee Camp of 
Confederate Veterans, at Aiken, S. C., place on Bee’s monu- 
ment a wreath of flowers presented by that Camp for such 
sacred purposes! 

“War’s richest spoils are the ashes of her brave.” Rich 
in such sacred dust is the soil of Old Pendleton. Here 
sleep soldiers of the early wars with the Cherokees; of the 
war of the Revolution, David Sloan, Gen. Blassingame, 
Col. Warren, Zachariah Taliafero, Andrew Pickens, Sr.; of 
the war of 1812, Andrew Pickens, Jr.; of the Florida war, 
Major R. F. Simpson; of the war with Mexico, Lieut. E. T. 
Shubrick ; of the war of Secession, whose names are regu- 
larly read on these memorial occasions; and a recently 


14—O. S. C. 


204 THE OLD STONE CHURCH 


erected stone in the Old Stone Church-yard guards the mem- 
ory of James Sloan Goodman, of the regular army, who 
died one year ago in the distant Philippines, whose body his 
parents hope will soon be brought home and put to rest there 
in native soil. Of all of these, the known and the unknown, 
let us use the words of O’Hara, a Mexican war soldier from 
the South, a soldier of the Confederacy, words which, cast 
on metal tablets, are read by thousands of visitors in the 
Federal cemeteries of our country: 


The muffled drum’s sad roll has beat 
The soldiers’ last tattoo; 

No more on Life’s parade shall meet 
That brave and fallen few. 

On Fame’s eternal camping-ground 
Their silent tents are spread, 

And glory guards, with solemn sound, 
The bivouac of the dead. 


No rumor of the foe’s advance 
Now swells upon the wind; 
No troubled thought at midnight haunts 
Of loved ones left behind; 
No vision of the warrior’s strife 
The warrior’s dream alarms; 
No braying horn nor screaming fife 
At dawn shall call to arms. 


Their shivered swords are red with rust; 
Their plumed heads are bowed; 

Their haughty banner, trailed in dust, 
Is now their martial shroud. 

And plenteous funeral tears have washed 
The red stains from each brow, 

And the proud forms, by battle gashed, 
Are free from anguish now. 


The neighing troops, the flashing blade, 
The bugle’s stirring blast, 

The charge, the dreadful cannonade, 
The din and shout are past; 

Nor war’s wild note, nor glory’s peal, 
Shall thrill, with fierce delight, 

Those breasts that never more may feel 
The rapture of the fight. 


Thus neath their parent turf they rest, 
Far from the gory field, 

Borne to a Spartan mother’s breast 
On many a bloody shield; 

The sunshine of their native sky 
Smiles sadly on them here, 

And kindred eyes and hearts watch by 
The heroes’ sepulchre. 


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Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead! 
Dear as the blood ye gave; 

No impious footsteps here shall tread 
The herbage of your grave; 

Nor shall your story be forgot 
While Fame her record keeps, 

Or Honor points the hallowed spot 
Where Valor proudly sleeps. 


The marble minstrels’ voiceless tone 
In deathless song shall tell, 
When many a vanished age hath flown, 
The story how ye fell; 
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter’s blight, 
Nor Time’s remorseless doom, 
Shall dim one ray of glory’s light 
That gilds your deathless tomb. 
—Keowee Courier, Walhalla, 8S. C., July 1, 1903. 


206 


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LIST OF THE DEAD. 
In THE OLD STONE CHURCH CEMETERY. 


Alexander, A. N. 
Alexander, Col. E. 
Alexander, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Anderson, Keziah Pickens 
Anderson, Maria 

Benson, E. B. 

Benson, Esther 

Benson, Wm. E. 

Benson, infant son of John 
B. and Elizabeth A. Ben- 
son. 

Bird, Mary M. 

Bishop, Jane 

Bishop, Dorcas 

Bishop, Nicholas and wife. 

Bishop, Jane 

Brackett, Richard Brandon 

Breazeale, Nettie McElroy 

Breazeale, Sam’! M. 

Bruce, Lucy M. 

Bynum, Turner 

Caminard, Mr. 

Caminard, Mrs. 

Caminard 

Caminard 

Caminard 

Caminard 

Carruth, Mary 

Cary, J. 

Cary, Julia Dillard 

Cary, Lucinda 

Cary, N. G. 

Casey 


Casey 

Cherry, David 

Cherry, Mary S. 

Cherry, David, infant son of 
G. R. and S. C. Cherry. 

Cherry, George R. 

Cherry, J. C. 

Cherry, Samuel 

Cherry, Sidney S. 

Cherry, Susan 

Cherry, Susan, daughter of 
Thomas and Mary Cherry. 

Cherry, Horatio Reese 

Cherry, Sarah Ann 

Cochran, John W. 

Cochran, infant son of New- 
ton Cochran. 

Cochran, Mary Cary 

Crawford 

Crawford 

Crawford 

Crawford 

Daniel, Eliza Pratt 

Dendy, Leland 

Dendy, Lucia E. 

Dickson, Florence Scott 

Dickson, Nancy Y. Scott 

Dickson, Thomas 

Dickson, Henry F. 

Dillard, Lizzie 

Dillard—two infants. 

Dillard, J. B. 

Doyle, Dr. O. M. 


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Doyle, Mrs. Mary E. Ram- 
sey. 

Dupre 

Elliott, Lawrence B. 

Elliott, three of John EI- 
liott’s children. 

Fitzgerald, Eli 

Fitzgerald, Margaret Adair 

Frazier, John 

Frazier, Eliza Young 

Gantt, B. F. 

Gantt, Mrs. B. F. 

Gantt, Frank 

Garvin, James A. 

Goodman, A. S., wife of 
Wm. W. 

Goodman, Wm. W. 

Grisham, Nancy, 
Joseph G. 

Hardin, Mary Payne 

Harris, John 

Harris, Robert 

Harris, Nathaniel 

Heineman, John 

Heineman, wife of John. 

Heineman, Mary 

Henry, Beverly Allen 

Henry, Ben Hill 

Henry, Mrs. Mary H., wife 
of Dr. B. A. Henry. 

Henry, William Patrick 

Henry, Miss 

Henry, James 

Hopkins, G. 

Hubbard, Rebecca 

Hubbard, Margie 
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wife of 


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Huger, Eliza 

Hunter, John G. 

Hunter, Ethelinda 

Hunter, Mandana 

Hunter, Mary 

Hunter, Sarah 

Hunter, Thomas 

Jones, Cornelia 
Symmes 

Johnson, Richard 

Johnson, wife of Richard. 

Kay, Charlotte Miller 

Keels, Martha P. Maxwell 

Kilpatrick, Col. F. W. 

Klugh, infant 

Langston, Emma McElroy, 
wife of P. B. Langston. 

Lanier, Bird 

Lanier, Elizabeth 

Lanier, Jane 

Lanier, Mary 

Lanier, Henie P. 

Lanier, Mary A., wife of H. 
A. Hinson. 

Ledbetter, Abner 

Ledbetter, Mrs. Abner (Sa- 
rah Miller, daughter of 
Alexander and Susan Cal- 
houn). 

Lewis, Susan M., wife of 
Jesse P. 

Lewis, Jesse P. 

Lewis, Jesse A. 

Lewis, David 

Lewis, Earle 

Lewis, Robert 


Whitner 


208 


Lewis, Carrie C., wife of J. 
J. Lewis. 

Lewis, Nancy F. 

Lewis, John Earle 

Lewis, Lindamira 

Lewis, Mary T., wife of J. 
Overton. 

Lewis, J. Overton 

Lewis, Richard 

Lewis, Sarah 

Lewis, Emma Elford 

Lewis, William E. 

Lewis, David S. 

Lewis, Andrew Felix 

Lewis, Susan Sloan 

Lewis, Andrew Fielding 

Livingston, Col. J. W. 

Livingston, infant daughter 

Lorton, John S. and wife. 

Lorton, Eliza Amanda 
(mother of Col. F. W. 
Kilpatrick. ) 

Martin, Wade H. 

Masters, Willie Claude 

Maxwell, Lizzie 

Maxwell, Dr. John H. and 
Mary E. 

Maxwell, John Baylis, infant 
son. 

Maxwell, infant 

Maxwell, Mary L. 

Maxwell, Elizabeth H., wife 
of Capt. John. 

Maxwell, Capt. John 

Maxwell, Baylis James 

Meriwether, Anna Reese 


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Miller, Crosby W. 

Miller, John, Sr. 

Miller, John, Jr. 

Miller, John 3d 

Miller, Mrs. John, Sr. 

Miller, Mrs. John, Jr. 

Miller, John F. 

Miller, Mrs. John F. 

Miller, S. F. W. 

Miller, Sarah J., wife of 
Patrick J. Miller. 

Miller, Mrs. Crosby W.— 
1st Ann Neel 

Miller, Mrs. Crosby W.— 
2d Eliza Hamilton 

Moore, Betsey Miller 

McAllester, Polly 

McBryde, Fannie L. 

McBryde, M. W. 

McBryde, Rev. T. L. 

McCleskey, Mrs. Mary 

McCrary, Edmund M. 

McCrary, Mary 

McCrary, Albert 

McCrary, Mary C. Harris 

McCrary, Sammie W., son 
of Edmund McCrary. 

McCrary, Willie A., son of 
Edmund McCrary. 

McCrary, Phoebe Doyle 

McElhenny, Rev. James 

McElroy, Dr. James M. 

McElroy, Martha Susan 

McElroy, J. S. 

McElroy, Sam’! R. 

McGufen, Andrew 


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McHugh, infant daughter of 
Jas: HH. and Mii Re Mc- 
Hugh. 

Ogier, Thomas 

Ogier, Peter Edward 

Patterson, John A. 

Patterson, Luther 

Patterson, infant 

Pickens, Andrew (infant 
son of A. C. Pickens.) 

Pickens, T. J., son of Ezekiel 
Pickens. 

Pickens, Gen’! Andrew 

Pickens, Mrs. Gen. Andrew 

Pickens, Gov. Andrew 

Pickens, Mrs. Gov. Andrew 

Pickens, Mrs. Andrew, wife 
of Andrew, son of Eze- 
kiel. 

Pickens, Jeremiah M. 

Pickens, Junius 

Pickens, Ezekiel 


Pickens, Mrs. Eliza, wife 
Ezekiel. 

Pickens, Andrew, son of T.. 
J. Pickens. 


Pickens, Mrs. T. J. 
Phillips, Arch. 

Phillips, Mrs. Arch. 
Phillips, Josephine 

Pike, Daniel 

Pike, Mary A. Phelps 
Pike, Ellen S. 

Pikey oP: 

Pike, Martha J. Fitzgerald 
Pike, Warren 


209 


Pike, Floride 

Price 

Price 

Ramsey, Sarah Hartgrove 
Reid 

Ramsey, Alexander, Sr. 
(1871) 

Ramsey, John 

Ramsey, Alexander, Sr. 
(1826) 

Ramsey, Isabella Baskins 

Reese, Caroline 

Reese, George, Sr. 

Reese, Horatio R. 

Reese, Jane Almira 

Reese, John Milton 

Reese, Horatio 

Reese, Rev. Thomas, D. D. 

Reese, Anna F. 

Reese, Mary Elizabeth 
Reese, Osenappa, son of 
George and Mary Reese. 

Reese, Ann 

Rembert, E. M. 

Roberson 

Rochester, Elizabeth, wife of 
Jonathan W. 

Rochester, Jonathan W. 

Rochester, Floride C. 

Rochester, Susan E., wife 
of W. G. Stephens. 

Rochester, J. L. 

Rochester, W. D. 

Rochester, William 

Rochester, Mrs. William 

Rochester, Sally 


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Roland, Lizzie 

Roland, Lizzie (daughter ) 

Ross, Rebecca Mary 

Rusk, John R. 

Rusk, Mrs. John R. 

Russell, Mrs. Geo. 
Scott Dickson) 

Sharpe, Ed. A. 

Sharpe, John F. 

Sharpe, Elam 

Sharpe, Mrs. Elam 

Sharpe, Elizabeth 

Sharpe, Charlotte B. 

Sharpe, Jane Elizabeth 

Simpson, infant son of W. 
and E. A. Simpson. 

Simpson, Raymond R. 

Simpson, William 

Simpson, Mrs. William 

Simpson 

Simpson 

Sloan, Frank, infant son of 
B. F. and Ella S. 

Sloan, Enoch Berry 

Sloan, Essie M. Whitner 

Sloan, Emma Caldwell 

Sloan, Wm. Henry 

Sloan, Rebecca Benson 

Sloan, three infant sons of 
John T. and Eliza A. 
Sloan. 

Steele, Major Joseph L,. 

Steele, Capt. Aaron 

Steele, Sarah Antoinette 

Steele, Sarah Antoinette, in- 
fant daughter. 


(Miss 


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Steele, Esther L. 

Steele, William 

Steele, Wm. Davis 

Steele, Nancy H., wife of 
Capt. Awis. 

Stephens, A. C. 

Stephens, G. B. 

Stephens, Hampton 

Stephens 

Stephens 

Stephens, Susan E. Roches- 
ter 

Stephens, Anna M. 

Story, Charles 

Story, Mary 

Stewart, infant 

Stewart, infant 

Swords, Harvey 

Symmes, Anna and Sarah— 
twins. 

Symmes, Alex. 

Symmes, Rebecca 

Symmes, Mrs. 
wife of 

Symmes, Dr. F. W. 

Symmes, F. W., Jr. 

Taylor, Effie 

Taylor, Truman 

Thurston, Wm. E. 

Walker, Matilda 

Walker, Wm., 3d son of W. 
and J. Walker 

Walker, Jane, 
William. 

Walker, William 


Sarah. 


consort of 


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Weyman, infant daughter 
of J. B. and E. M. Wey- 
man. 

Whitner, Joseph 

Whitner, Mrs. Joseph 

Whitner, Elizabeth 

White, N. J., wife of A. F. 
White. 

White, G. Verner 

White, Margaret B. Beatty, 
wife of G. V. White. 

Whitten, Frank S. 

Whitten, Nina 

Whitten, Ursula Jane 

Whitten, John C. 

Whitten, Franklin G. 

Whitten, Henrietta 

Whitten, Elmira Hubbard 

Whitten, Mary 

Whitten, Bird 

Whitten, Mary 


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Whitten, Campbell 

Whitten, Collin 

Whitten, infant 

Whitten, infant 

Whitten, Luther 

Whitten, infant 

Wilson, Mr. 

Wilson, Martha Miller 

Wright 

Young, William 

Young, Mary 

Young, Eliza, wife of J. J. 
Frazier. 

Young, C. W.’s family— 
Young, H. C. 
Young, Hattie A. 
Young, C. G. 

Zachary, baby of J. R. and 
J. R. Zachary. 

Zachary, Claude L. 


List of Confederate Dead. 


Alexander, A. N. 
Cherry; J.C. 
Dickson, Henry F. 
Doyle, Dr. O. M. 
Frazier, John 
Gantt, B. F. 
Goodman, W. W. 
Harris, John A. 
Harris, Robt. A. 
Hopkins, Gaston 
Kilpatrick, Col. F. W. 
Lewis, David S. 
Lewis, Earle 


Lewis, Robt. 
Livingston, Col. J. W. 
Miller, John F. 
Miller, S. F. W. 
McCrary, Edmund M. 
McElroy, J. S. 
Rochester, W. D. 
Sharpe, Ed. 

Sloan, Enoch Berry 
Stephens, A. C. 
Swords, Harvey 
White, G. Verner 
Whitten, John C. 


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Revolutionary Soldiers. 


Garvin, John* Rusk, John R. 
Pickens, General Andrew 


Indian Creek War, 1815-1816. 


Jessie Payne Lewis 


*This is probably James A. Garvin. I know of no John Garvin buried in this 
cemetery. (Editor.) 


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